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?
How much experience do you have with collage?
I don’t have much experience with collage. I did some work in high school with collage but that’s it.
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 have always been a spiritual, free soul and I think that influenced my designs as a whole.
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?
I actually stayed around my family. My two oldest children are artistic and they were very interested in what I was working on so I tried to stay where they could observe me working. I listened to audiobooks while I was working on my collages.
Scissors or X-Acto?
X-Acto
Was there anything unexpected that emerged while creating your work? Any new epiphanies?
There was, on my culture/discover collage I was going for just culture in general but I think after I put it together, took away, and put it together differently it changed to a deeper meaning of discovery of self through Goddess.
Looking at your work again, has your understanding of your collages changed over time? Has any hidden meaning emerged?
