Everyday Histories
2026 – PRESENT
In this series, I position collage as an entry point into the historical imagination, asking questions about the past as it remains in the present, with an interest in gendered discourses of class. I use materials found in archives, in historical magazines, and from my everyday experience to explore American cultural narratives alongside my own family history. I was raised almost entirely by women, most of whom have passed on, with roots in rural Ohio and West Virginia. My grandmothers were born during the Great Depression and raised their children during the Cold War, an era marked by gains in civil rights as well as the threat of annihilation. Yet they left behind little evidence that they ever existed. Through collage, I trace the contours of their being, contrasting the material and symbolic realities of their lives with signs of power.
