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?
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?
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’m completely surrounded by distractions constantly. From pets, movies playing on my second monitor, to my parents constantly telling me to clean up messes that they created in the kitchen. I think taking breaks from the collages to do something else had me thinking about and rearranging my collage work in ways I wouldn’t have thought about if I never took a break.
Scissors or X-Acto?
Was there anything unexpected that emerged while creating your work? Any new epiphanies?
Looking at your work again, has your understanding of your collages changed over time? Has any hidden meaning emerged?
Many artists are using the pandemic as a moment to pause and reflect. Do you think Covid-19 informed your work in any way?
