Collage — Jeanette Strezinski

What The Space Sees, 2024-2026

This series of photomontages portrays architectural and landscape scenes reminiscent of everyday happenings. By combining print media, multimedia processes and image fragments taken from my own photography, I create alternative worlds with futuristic narratives depicting both past and present events. I strive to create unified, seamless photomontages that invite the viewer to explore, discover and question. In the course of my work, I often find dated articles that closely mirror current events, stark reminders of how history often repeats in a continuous loop of cultural and social conditions with unresolved issues, serving to underscore just how challenging the struggles can be. In our current times of uneasy rest, where heightened threats to our democracy and injustices throughout the world are a daily occurrence brought to our attention nonstop, the power of art can be a catalyst to spread awareness, action and hope. In its broadest sense, art can serve as a voice of reason to those willing to listen but mostly, it provides some measure of respite and equanimity to those who create it.