Unearthly

by Hayley J. Boyle

Old postcards, paper scraps, photos, glue

Methods: Figurative collage

Inspiration: The last few years have made me feel like the world is literally being torn at its seams–shattered, scattered, broken, and bruised. Too often, I’ve said the now familiar-to-me cliche, “We’re living through unprecedented times.” But it now feels like “unprecedented times” are the new normal, and that they are, in fact, becoming the precedent by which we live our lives. As landscapes across the world are bombed, as people lose their homes, schools, and places of work because of economic and political decisions, as hospitals are filled with the sick and dying, I keep trying to imagine a world that is structured differently than the one we live in–where cities can come together under pink skies, cabins can sit peacefully in the woods, and our terrain can remain unscathed.