It can be so easy to see something as part of its context instead of everything it is. I love collage because sometimes the best bit about a thing is something that was almost invisible in its original surrounds. Being “out of place” does not mean something is not where it was born to be! I made ‘To be held’ because I saw the delicate, gentle, cared-for feeling of being completely loved in the body and limbs and hands I’d collected, but most of what you see was cut out of seemingly un-gentle porno mags. The deer in ‘Lunch’ were taxidermy in a white box gallery when I first found them, and it was so lovely to put their hooves back in the grass. The things that make up ‘Platter’ could be considered grotesque, but when you look at them together, you can see they share the same pink and yellow tones we find in each other’s faces when we smile. Thank you for your time with my work and have a lovely day at the gallery!