From the French word coller, to glue, collage is a traditional art form that uses paper and other media to create new images. In this modern age, it has evolved beyond its origins to include the world of digital imaging, computer manipulations and AI creations. Kim is a traditionalist and employs old-fashioned scissors and Yes! Paste, gluing old magazine and book images onto archival, acid free 8-ply mat boards. Computer editing is kept to a bare minimum and is reserved for tiny touch ups. From the final piece, a digital file is then created and used to make fine art prints, greeting cards or prints, metal prints or acrylic blocks.

Collage allows for nuanced and multi-layered imaginal expression. Kim describes it as visual poetry. Conceptually, juxtaposition of images has meaning, as does the serendipity of finding or not finding particular images. The rules of perspective bend, and interpretations, as with a dream, are forever unfolding.  Her work reflects her deep love for the natural world and is infused with the archetypal themes of embodiment, belonging, divinity, passion, beauty, and grace.

For Kim, collage has been the primary creative vehicle for the expression of life’s inevitable pain, carrying her prayers for its resolution. It allows for the reconciliation of sensuality with rationality, whimsy with gravitas, and the peaceful acceptance of the past with present, infusing hope and possibility with visible and tangible action. It provides both resolution and the subsequent invitation to open. It celebrates the beauty of it all.

Implicit in the gluing of the images into their final form is a commitment, to the work, to healing and to the emotional and spiritual evolution of the artist. It is a process of truth, eliciting a deep trust in the process, in one’s intuition and in one’s ability to adjust in the moment.

Kim also offers many of her collages as prints and greeting cards. Please see below under ‘cards and prints’ for purchasing.