Kathy Edwards Hayslett

My practice embraces collage and assemblage as tools for communicating both disjunction and linkage, particularly regarding time, memory, and histories. When spaces, objects, fragments of objects, and text are represented, re-represented and combined, new juxtapositions and compositions are created, which present layered references and content. My work addresses such current themes as climate change, feminism, materiality, colonialism, and trauma and memory. I work two dimensionally and in relief. My materials, particularly for the assemblages, are carefully selected to enable narratives and connections to viewers. There is usually a “character” as in a book. The character might be represented with a tintype, and stories are suggested with artifacts and paper media that suppose time travel, and cross reference myriad histories and cultures. Decoration and pattern are woven in composition, as landscape is an essential armature for the subject.