environmental collage

The environmental collage is an ever-changing work of art. It transmogrifies as time acts upon its ever-changing scraps. If I see one and do not shoot it immediately, it will have almost certainly evolved or dissolved upon my return. It is subject to chance, to spontaneous creation, whether by the elements or human intervention. It is a palimpsest: an enigmatic fragment of New York, hiding in plain sight. It has the luxury to unfold in a city that embraces abstractions and chaotic interventions on its streets. These photographs are a permanent documentation of the environmental collages I’ve observed at one particular moment, giving an afterlife to a vanishing world. – Stephanie Power