I find that everything I do in art-making revolves around collage. Something always grounds me there. The idea of cutting out the old or the basic and making it into something grander. The loving and understanding of something that was originally created for someone else's enjoyment, but growing apart from these original foundations and sculpting them into something entirely my own. In that respect my work in thesis originates with a poem and digital collage titled, The Garden Body, considering how all fem presenting people start as a garden, but together we make up landscapes and ecosystems. We are more than what we were designed to be. It reads in part as follows:

my body is a garden 

not just a flower that's only job is to 

look pretty 

                        be pollinated

                                                and die 

no, my body is a garden 

a beautiful home that brings me joy

joined with others it makes up 

ecosystems and 

                        rolling                                

   bountiful                                

      landscapes

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