Intercepted Boundaries

Collaboration: Victoria Martinez & Ariella Schreck
Reclaimed Upholstery Fabric & Cyanotype prints on Rayon

Intercepted boundaries was created in two segments; first the base layer was crafted in Baltimore, then the piece was sent to Schreck to build on to the abstraction. Martinez, responding to the way color, patters and emotions organically form, created a collage by sewing together fragments of fabric that relate to her cultural identity. With the collaged form made, Schreck then printed older travel photographs and appliquéd them to the piece. The form made strongly resembles a continent, with stitched lines implicating borders and boundaries. 

Chance plays a major role in both the artists work, as their imagery comes from the re-appropriation of old imagery or found scraps that others may view as disposable. Martinez and Schreck’s love of discovering opportunities in these articles creates a new life in each collage composed