Tag: storytelling through collage

Marie Laforge creates imaginative mixed-media collages using vintage books, discarded magazines, and found paper to build playful visual worlds where people, flowers, animals, and everyday objects meet in unexpected ways. Growing up in the French Alps before studying Graphic Arts and Advertising in Paris, she discovered that collage offered a unique freedom to reinvent existing images and allow curiosity, chance, and imagination to shape each composition. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative, Marie lets every collage evolve naturally as unrelated fragments find new relationships and meanings. Her work celebrates transformation,…

Cristina Rodriguez creates collages that transform torn paper fragments into powerful reflections on women’s identity and lived experience. Working entirely by hand, she cuts, tears, and layers found images to build compositions that feel both chaotic and deeply intentional. Her process mirrors the fragmentation of memory and the complexity of personal and collective narratives, where meaning emerges through juxtaposition and reconstruction. Influenced by literature, art, and lived experience, her work moves between vulnerability and resistance, inviting viewers to find themselves within the layers. Rather than presenting complete or resolved images, her…