Portfolio > Collage Michele Sommer-Shapiro

In my work I strive to create one-of-a-kind narratives that address the wide range of forces that govern our lives: birth, death, time, cycles, blessings, secrets, mysteries, and fate. Poetry, Literature, Dreams, the Past, and Spiritual Forces provide infinite windows into the human experience. Recently I have been celebrating the struggles, triumphs, and beauty of the female experience using the medium of collage. I hope by sharing my work the viewer can draw their own conclusions.
“I love the way the faces seem as though they are not there, but upon closer examination they are suggested exquisitely. All the ragged symbolism is puzzled together into high fashion” critical review...

Black Leaves on Tangerine
Mixed Media tea bags feathers rice paper dress patterns magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
The Notorious RBG
Mixed Media dress patterns black netting lace foil recycled jewelry findings
11x14 framed
2023
After Ms. Rich
Mixed Media
11x14 framed
2023
After Lenora Cartingtin
Mixed Media foil magazine fragments dried flowers tissue paper
11x14 framed
2023
After Denise Levertov
Mixed Media feathers dress patterns cactus thorns film negatives wood shavings magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
After Alice Walker
Mixed Media dress patterns wrapping paper lace recycled greeting cards dress magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
Sylvia’s Luck
Mixed Media tea bags lace candle wick bottoms rice paper diamond gem sequins ebony glass beads antique wooden shoe nails magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
Ode to Liz Cheney
Mixed Media map of Wyoming ribbon antique wooden shoe nails candle wick bottoms cicada wings jewelry bezel
11x14 framed
2023
The Question and the Questioner
Mixed Media ribbon pearl hens antique wooden shoe nails dress patterns magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
After Amanpour
Mixed Media cactus thorns dress patterns cicada wings netting various papers magazine fragments
11x14 framed
2023
Recantation
Mixed media teabags cicada wings foil black netting magazine fragments jewelry bezel feathers
11x17 Framed
2023