A Passion Project.

When I moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in August of 2015 one of the first creatives I met was a poet, Emily Jean McCollister.

Emily introduced me to a project she was working on, a chatbook that would be spotlighting a collection of her absurdist poems, titled "A piece of cheesecake is never just a piece of cheesecake. Cast into my lake and I will eat your hook."

I was so captivated by the (seemingly) nonsensical word compositions that my imagination began running wild with the visuals that my new found poet friend inspired. I created the following pieces using images from issues of 1950s and 1960s "TIME" and "Southern Living". The end result was a limited run printed publication that displayed the perimeter of the following pieces, with white boxes on top of each with her words displayed. Here are my collages in there entirety inspired by the words of Emily: