… my collages are created from fragments of mundane ephemera: discarded magazines, old books, out of date catalogues, obsolete instruction manuals, battered knitting patterns … imagery is removed from its context, dislocated through time and space – the original context is distorted and obfuscated … each collage is like palimpsest – made of layers of the past that overlap, juxtapose and conceal to create a new meaning …