Five Stories

Through constructed photography and assemblage art, Janine Menlove explores relationships between object, place, and time. Using her original photographs, she creates narratives of personal and/or global reference in her characteristic style of significance and whimsy. Nature, humor, wit and words are common elements found in her numerous projects of diverse themes and concepts—Menlove is always pushing the boundaries of her creativity. "The allure of photomontage is the practical capacity to breakdown limitations between imagination and reality. Narratives are created with compilations of diverse and fragmented visual information. Combinations are limitless making my process include the somewhat colossal detail of choices and possibilities. Beginning with a concept, the end result is a combination of chance and discovery."