Inertialart

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage was inspired by Bruegel's painting in which people go about their daily business while Icarus plunges unnoticed into the sea. It features a girl's legs as Icarus and a woman in yellow, clutching an astronaut's glove, preparing to make her own flight. 

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about childhood terrors and menacing adult behaviour. It features a circus rouse-about, a child jockey, and girls with a corn cob. 

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about safety, non-safety, and creaturely touch. It features a circus elephant supported by a human arm, two friends in a farewell embrace, a boy sheltering a girl holding a lamb, and a child boxer gripped by his manager.   

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about losing a father. It features an astronaut's glove, an empty flight-suit, and a young woman arming herself against a world of masculine threat. 

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about forced military service. It features a bust of a roman emperor, an oblivious dancer, a bull being branded, and a young woman about to be parted from her young man. 

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about the arrival of a father figure who might make things safe. It features astronaut hero John Glenn in the role of the father figure, a terrible plane crash, born-to-rule college boys, and a young girl with a corn cob.

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This is from a mini-series about how we both venerate and denigrate animals. Among a landscape of splendid and fearsome creatures of the air, it features a captured sparrow, stuffed and tagged birds, and Ham the space chimp who was 'specially trained' for his mission through the application of repeated electric shocks.     

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This is from a mini-series about how we both venerate and denigrate animals. Among a landscape of splendid and fearsome creatures of earth, it features a mummified dog, dead bears being prepared for taxidermy and a hunter.         

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This is from a mini-series about how we both venerate and denigrate animals. Among a landscape of splendid and fearsome creatures of the sea, it features children playing on a dead shark.    

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about men of war and how we are both impressed and frightened by them. It features Captain Seddigh as the man of war.    

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about fleshiness. It features wrestlers, a cowboy, sausages, snakes and a dancer. 

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about the Tower of Babel. It features people working together in an attempt to understand their world and being smitten by God for their efforts.

Hand-made collage on paper. All images are clipped from National Geographics.

This collage is about loss, fear and poverty. It features a mother sad and worried about her sick child.