Last Call at Galle Crater
2024, traditional collage, 14 x 16 inches
“A decomposing astronaut drifts among the inhabitants of some forgotten cosmic outpost, where the boundary between the living and the inanimate has long since dissolved.”
Nervous Breakdown at 11:23 p.m.
2024, traditional collage, 4 x 6 inches
“A grinning saint — haloed, horned, and butterfly-winged — presides over a skull held up like an offering, devotion and dread made indistinguishable from one another.”
Plate 11
2020, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A figure with a shattered, stone-lobed head and a respirator for a mouth stands amid industrial wreckage and a fractured sky.”
Plate 10
2020, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“Two faces spliced into a single vertical axis stare outward from a world where skulls sprout wings, eyes colonize bodies, and the ornate and the wounded exist in uncomfortable proximity.”
Plate 9
2020, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A figure in formal dress presides over a gathering of masks and dolls, the natural world looming at the edges as if waiting to reclaim whatever order remains.”
Plate 8
2018, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A grotesque elder dissolves upward while the world below launches, broadcasts, and watches — everything transmitting, nothing connecting.”
Plate 7
2018, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“Two hybrid figures face each other across a cosmic axis, one presiding from above with a mechanical eye, the other kneeling over a bowl of butterflies — ritual and surveillance collapsed into the same gesture.”
Plate 6
2018, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A pink-suited figure wears the world as a crown, ringed by explosive organic growth, while a burning skull drifts overhead and two tiny figures watch from the edge of another planet.”
Plate 5
2017, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“Two figures — one turned away, one gazing outward — stand rooted in a desert landscape like organisms that have grown up from the earth itself, while stranger things circle overhead.”
Plate 4
2017, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“Fragments of ritual, portraiture, and the uncanny press against each other across a grid of red and blue, every face — carved, photographed, masked, or tentacled — demanding equal attention.”
Plate 3
2017, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A black void descends through a solar eclipse into a galaxy map and an iridescent abyss, while gilded cherubs cling to the stem as if ornamenting the mouth of something that cannot be named.”
Plate 2
2017, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A face assembled from mismatched fragments clutches a disembodied eye while the grand interiors of history and the lit sprawl of the modern city collapse into the same uneasy background.”
Plate I
2017, traditional collage, 11 x 17 inches
“A winged skull descends over a map of the American West and a city of millions, while passport photos and anonymous faces bear quiet witness to whatever is falling.”
Kevin L. Kuder 