7 February 2026
Bit of a discovery today that I feel excited about. For a few years now, I've been steadily accumulating paper/printed ephemera—mail that comes through the door both (personal and junk), discarded magazines and newspapers I find on the ground, ticket stubs, flyers handed to me on the street, etc. I often make collages with them, and it just now occurred to me that it might be interesting to try turning those collages into paintings. The stream of printed material that one encounters in daily life is steady and unending, so there are always new images and words on the way. It's always unpredictable and it always comes to you. Even today, just outside my flat I found some sort of origami instruction flyer that shows how to make a butterfly, and in the mail there was some handout decorated with the silhouette of a butterfly zipping around (dots to describe its trail). These are forms and ideas direct from the world's river of information. What better way than to jump into it?