Cohort 52 is a platform for emerging voices from the Applied Art & Design program at Sierra College in Northern California. Cohort 52 is facilitated by Assistant Professor Vincent Pacheco.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
My main passions in life are photography and riding on a motorcycle. I have an A.S. in photography and I’m working on getting my own business up and running. I have 5 adult kids and 5 grandbabies.
How much experience do you have with collage?
Collage artists tend to be picky when it comes to their source material. Can you talk about your approach for selecting your images and/or publications?
Were there any large themes you intended to explore or unpack before you began with this series of work? Did you stay on theme, or did things change as you began physically cutting and pasting images?
How did your background and life experiences inform your collages?
I’m not really sure. I can say that I’m very determined to finish something that I’ve started, so not finishing, to me, is not an option. I guess that’s what helped me get through this project.
What was your environment and set-up like when making the work? Did you listen to music? Did you work in isolation, or were you surrounded by distraction? Do you think this influenced the work you made?
Scissors or X-Acto?
Was there anything unexpected that emerged while creating your work? Any new epiphanies?
Yeah. I realized that creating collages wasn’t going to kill me or make my brain explode or something. That I actually was starting to get into doing the project.
Looking at your work again, has your understanding of your collages changed over time? Has any hidden meaning emerged?
No. They still have the same meanings.
