Perceptua

Virtual Exhibition
Laurel True

I began creating this body of work almost exactly one year ago, at the end of 2020.
I started making them and I just kept on going.. I think I made nearly a hundred of them, most of them on 4’ x 4’ canvases, over the course of several months.

Creating these analog photo collages helped keep me grounded and sane during the pandemic. When I began, I had no idea these small-scale colleges would become an entire body of work. I just loved cutting things out, and gluing shit down.

I created, guided by an autonomic process that I decided to trust… combining and recombining images that led me into and through a kind of subconscious dreamworld… populated with familiar memories, new perceptions and surreal configurations.

Through combing images of my travels, past work (public/commissioned/street), and my own photography, I delved into a process of intuitive experimentation that brought me a sense of grounding and joy during an unexpected fold in time.

Perceptua explores both the inner and outer cosmos; kaleidoscopic visions, shifting perspectives, and relationships between the built world and nature. Drawing inspiration from ecology, architecture and the urban landscape, I layered details of my artwork with images taken in different parts of the world.

The eye runs through this body of work, as in most of my work, a unifying and universal symbol of awareness, perception and consciousness.

Materials: photos, paper, mirror, mixed media, gold leaf

Credits: Photography is my own with a few exceptions including: images from vintage birding books, some found photos, fungi photos (Stephen Axford), and several prompt images from #pariscollagecollective

Places: New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, Oregon, Chicago, Paris, Budapest, Istanbul, Marrakesh, Paris, Buenos Aires, Chile, Haiti, Costa Rico, Mexico, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Provence, Barcelona, Wisconsin, inside my head…

Originals $95
Also available as prints