CHAOS - Drawing inspiration from the Surrealists—who extended the tradition of collage and automatic composition—Drahos creates intuitive and layered works that explore the tension between order and disorder. Beginning with her own photographs and thousands of magazine fragments, she arranges cut images into loosely structured compositions. The resulting series of collages brings together photographs and paper ephemera in visually dense and thought-provoking assemblages. In these works, chaos is transformed into coherence, and new narratives emerge from familiar materials.

“As in the automatic methods employed by early 20th-century artists, her process welcomes the subconscious and invites unpredictable connections,” said Ted Lind, ARTSPLACE Board Member.