"What's Old is made New Again" by Elizabeth Brandon
Mixed media recycled paper collage
17 x 14 in. (23.5 x 17.5 in., framed)
This piece reimagines Jules Breton’s 1884 painting “The Song of the Lark” for the modern viewer through recycled torn paper collage— cardboard food boxes, old magazines, actual litter, and packing tissue all came together to create a new story about hope. I started this piece in 2023 not knowing where it would take me over the process of imagining and reimagining it countless times over. Breaking it down, cutting away, and gluing it together layer by layer until a new vision emerges. At a time when we’re searching for ways to understand the present moment, we realize that we are only but reiterations of the past— new spores rising up from the fungal network. Time keeps churning, but it’s up to us to pull from our networked memories. We can look to our past to see the hope of the future, the bird’s call, the sun on the horizon.
Mixed media recycled paper collage
17 x 14 in. (23.5 x 17.5 in., framed)
This piece reimagines Jules Breton’s 1884 painting “The Song of the Lark” for the modern viewer through recycled torn paper collage— cardboard food boxes, old magazines, actual litter, and packing tissue all came together to create a new story about hope. I started this piece in 2023 not knowing where it would take me over the process of imagining and reimagining it countless times over. Breaking it down, cutting away, and gluing it together layer by layer until a new vision emerges. At a time when we’re searching for ways to understand the present moment, we realize that we are only but reiterations of the past— new spores rising up from the fungal network. Time keeps churning, but it’s up to us to pull from our networked memories. We can look to our past to see the hope of the future, the bird’s call, the sun on the horizon.
Mixed media recycled paper collage
17 x 14 in. (23.5 x 17.5 in., framed)
This piece reimagines Jules Breton’s 1884 painting “The Song of the Lark” for the modern viewer through recycled torn paper collage— cardboard food boxes, old magazines, actual litter, and packing tissue all came together to create a new story about hope. I started this piece in 2023 not knowing where it would take me over the process of imagining and reimagining it countless times over. Breaking it down, cutting away, and gluing it together layer by layer until a new vision emerges. At a time when we’re searching for ways to understand the present moment, we realize that we are only but reiterations of the past— new spores rising up from the fungal network. Time keeps churning, but it’s up to us to pull from our networked memories. We can look to our past to see the hope of the future, the bird’s call, the sun on the horizon.