"Every collage is made from fragments. So are we."
My collages are not fixed objects. They are living, breathing, and always evolving. What you see here is one moment in an ongoing conversation. Tomorrow, next month, or years from now, I may return to a piece and discover something I couldn't yet see. I don't think of that as changing the work. I think of it as honoring the truth that none of us is ever finished. We are always becoming.
I create from fragments—some of my own photographs, many discovered, borrowed, and transformed into something new. Creativity has always been a conversation across generations, cultures, and artists. My work exists because others first imagined, photographed, painted, sculpted, and dreamed.
I don't create to possess ideas. I create to participate in them.
If one of my collages sparks a new way of seeing, inspires another artist, or encourages someone to ask a question they hadn't considered before, then the conversation has done exactly what it was meant to do.
MY CREATIONS
"Hope Springs Eternal"
MY PROCESS
I don't begin with an answer. I begin with a question that won't let go of me.
I embrace technology as part of my creative process. PowerPoint is my canvas. ChatGPT is a trusted creative companion. The digital world is my studio. These aren't shortcuts—they're tools that help me explore ideas, experiment freely, and discover images I couldn't have imagined on my own.
Every collage begins with curiosity rather than certainty. I rarely know exactly where a piece is going when I start. Images appear, disappear, and return. Layers shift. Meanings evolve. Often the collage teaches me what I was trying to say only after it's finished.
Or perhaps more accurately, after this version is finished.
I don't create to arrive at answers. I create to ask better questions. Every collage is an invitation—not simply to look, but to wonder, reflect, and continue the conversation in your own way.
What I make, I release—not as a finished artifact, but as an invitation.
"Hope Springs Eternal"
"Hope Springs Eternal"
"Every collage is made from fragments.
So are we."
The complete body of work, presented from newest to oldest.
Curated collections that bring related works into conversation around shared themes and questions.
I don't create to explain the Great Mystery.
I create to keep the conversation alive.
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"Self Portrait"
ABOUT THE CREATOR
I'm Garrett.
I began making art after cancer surgery at the start of the pandemic, coloring one postcard each day as a way to stay connected to life and hope.
A few years later, after losing my mother, father, and sister within a remarkably short time, I turned to PowerPoint as an unexpected canvas. Layer by layer, fragments became collages—not only to process grief, but to rediscover beauty, curiosity, and wonder.
Today, my work explores the questions that shape us. Love and loss. Faith and doubt. Identity and belonging. The sacred and the ordinary. I don't create to offer answers. I create to invite conversation.
Each collage is accompanied by an artist note and a reflection question because I believe the work isn't complete until someone else enters it. My hope is that you'll find something of your own story within these images and perhaps leave with a question worth carrying a little longer.
I don't create to explain the Great Mystery.
I create to keep the conversation alive.
What conversation brought you here today?
Every collage begins with a question.
Some lead me into memory. Others into grief, wonder, faith, creativity, or the beautiful contradictions of being human. Here I share the conversations behind the images—the unexpected inspirations, artistic choices, evolving process, and personal reflections that continue long after a collage feels "finished."
If my work invites you to see the world a little differently or leaves you with a question of your own, I'd love for you to join the conversation.
