Chimera
These collages are three-bodied monsters, like their namesake lion-goat-dragon from classical mythology. They demonstrate the development of a rigorous method within my practice, whereby hand cutting and pasting of intricately shaped pieces conceals the seams between image fragments, creating new alignments between diverse and seemingly unrelated sources. The work presented here is just a selection from a much larger series, which were made precisely within one calendar year. These architectural constructions do not have predetermined locations or programs. Thus, each assemblage is an act of world-making. Except for the very earliest in the series, the source material was a collection of inherited architecture journals from the 1980s to the near present. Just as 20th-century collage was intended to shock, these Chimeras are designed to deceive, as architectural images are stealthily dismantled, realigned, and reassembled to create new forms and spaces.
