SourcingthePast

A look into the recent haul of 1960s Life magazines and how a single advertisement for a refrigerator sparked the entire "Domestic Orbit" series.

The journey of creating this piece began months before the first cut was made. Hours spent in antique shops, sifting through boxes of forgotten magazines from the 1950s and 60s—each image a portal to a future that never came to be.

“Every collage is a conversation between two eras that never actually met.”

The aesthetic we chase is one of optimistic nostalgia—a world where chrome fins still promised interstellar travel and domestic appliances were designed as if they might one day be installed in a lunar colony. This tension between the past's vision of tomorrow and our present reality creates a unique emotional resonance.

The Process

Working primarily with physical media, each piece begins with careful selection of source material. The paper quality, the specific shade of that mid-century Kodachrome, the typography of vintage advertisements—these details matter immensely. A piece might require sourcing materials from a dozen different publications before the composition feels right.