A Victorian cabinet card couple from Great Bend, Kansas — layered over handwritten correspondence dated 3-29-30. A die-cut silhouette holds the found text "the space she made" — placed intuitively, speaking back. Mixed media collage on found ephemera. One of a kind.
Two strangers from the Halladay studio in Great Bend, Kansas sit for their portrait — unaware they'd one day become part of a conversation about absence. The woman has been cut free from the original photograph and repositioned; her silhouette remains, now holding found typewriter text: the space she made. A handwritten letter to "Dear Horace," dated March 29, 1930, forms the background — its cursive lines bleeding through like a second voice. Brass ornamental detail anchors the lower left. The whole piece asks: who left, and what did they leave behind?
Dimensional mixed media collage. Found cabinet card photograph, vintage correspondence, die-cut silhouette, found text strip, brass hardware element. Finished with resin. Mounted on wood panel.
A Victorian cabinet card couple from Great Bend, Kansas — layered over handwritten correspondence dated 3-29-30. A die-cut silhouette holds the found text "the space she made" — placed intuitively, speaking back. Mixed media collage on found ephemera. One of a kind.
Two strangers from the Halladay studio in Great Bend, Kansas sit for their portrait — unaware they'd one day become part of a conversation about absence. The woman has been cut free from the original photograph and repositioned; her silhouette remains, now holding found typewriter text: the space she made. A handwritten letter to "Dear Horace," dated March 29, 1930, forms the background — its cursive lines bleeding through like a second voice. Brass ornamental detail anchors the lower left. The whole piece asks: who left, and what did they leave behind?
Dimensional mixed media collage. Found cabinet card photograph, vintage correspondence, die-cut silhouette, found text strip, brass hardware element. Finished with resin. Mounted on wood panel.
