My work compiles cutouts from luxury magazines with scraps from my time working in stationery stores. I utilize collage as a means of discussion, working through the kinks until a solution emerges. It is a lesson in trusting my ideas and abilities. I extract abstraction from representative forms like the human body, animals, landscapes, and objects, seeking the unfamiliar in the familiar. What results is a type of field journal that examines themes of identity and empathy.