Mike Collins
Redacted
2018
acrylic, charcoal, spray paint, resin, oil pastel and fishing line stretched with leather into chrome frame
38 x 38 inches
Redacted is from a series called, "The Nightmare Catcher," and is the piece that contains the imagery and patterns of a recurring dream that often results with me waking to my own muffled screams.
This piece hung in a larger arrangement in last year's, "Woven Stories," at MOAH Lancaster. I chose to submit, "Redacted," by itself for Hobson's Choice because of the current quarantine/plague-like reality that we are living with. There is an opportunity somewhere in the monotony of the day-to-day repetitions and slowing down that we are collectively experiencing that reminds me of this piece.