Reimagine an Image

"The cuts I use in my collages are taken from patterns found in nature.

I’m fascinated with the repetition of a shape, like leaves on a tree, when viewed at a distance creates the perception of that object being whole, when in actuality it is made up of distinctly different pieces.

My work, similarly, upon close examination, is an image fragmented and then reassembled to create a new whole. Unification of the image is done through context, color, hue or texture.

In some of my work I intentionally pick an image that will meld with it’s background and in others it is a selection of images assembled to convey a mood, but in all the works I want the texture of the cuts to come through in juxtaposition to the flatness of the images I started with."

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Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and worked…