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Artist: Melissa Parra-Morrow and Greg Morrow M & G (Palm Coast)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Analog Collage (over 500 pieces) using clippings from old magazines and books | Dimensions: 19.5" x 19.5" x 1.25" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
This collage is an act of resistance created to challenge political power, confront justice, preserve cultural memory and give voice to those who push the margins. It is about a government that chooses profit over people, greed over compassion, and control over humanity. It's about power and how it mutates, corrupts, and who it sacrifices to sustain itself. In an era where cruelty is policy, where families are torn apart in the name of “security,” and where ICE operates not as protection, fear is made visible. Money, spectacle, nationalism, distraction encircle the most vulnerable while pretending not to see them. At the center, a child holds a sign: “More Empathy Please.” It is the simplest demand, and the one most ignored. It confronts the normalization of family separation, the weaponization of ignorance, and a system engineered to benefit the obscenely rich. When did punishment become policy? Why is hatred dressed up as patriotism? Who gets erased so others can feel powerful? This collage illustrates the Trumpster fire” accosting our current policy on immigration, the money and the greed begetting the clown president and his pig army of I.C.E. agents intent on fracturing families in the name of control. Some continue to drink the Kool-Aid, yet more and more take to the streets choosing empathy over cruelty, humanity over fear. Through the language of fragmentation, disruption, and reassembly, the piece insists on visibility, accountability, and the possibility of a more humane future. Some still swallow the narrative whole. Others refuse. They march, they resist, they choose empathy over cruelty. This collage doesn’t ask politely. It indicts. It refuses to look away.
About the Artist
Collage is where I meet the world halfway , taking what’s been thrown away and giving it new meaning, new life. I choose scissors and glue as my weapons of choice in transforming cultural debris, forgotten paper, and visual chaos into portals that bridge the human, the alien, and the machine, melding technology with organic substance. Digging through the wreckage of culture to find hidden stories, then layering them into dreamlike worlds. It’s an endless dialogue between destruction and imagination, where every cut and paste, every layer reveals another possibility. It’s how I reclaim beauty from overload, building worlds where the discarded becomes divine. It’s my meditation and rebellion at once, a way to turn the madness of modern life into something mysterious and beautiful.
https://www.instagram.com/wildthingstudiosart/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Melissa Parra-Morrow and Greg Morrow M & G (Palm Coast)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Analog Collage (over 500 pieces) using clippings from old magazines and books | Dimensions: 19.5" x 19.5" x 1.25" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
This collage is an act of resistance created to challenge political power, confront justice, preserve cultural memory and give voice to those who push the margins. It is about a government that chooses profit over people, greed over compassion, and control over humanity. It's about power and how it mutates, corrupts, and who it sacrifices to sustain itself. In an era where cruelty is policy, where families are torn apart in the name of “security,” and where ICE operates not as protection, fear is made visible. Money, spectacle, nationalism, distraction encircle the most vulnerable while pretending not to see them. At the center, a child holds a sign: “More Empathy Please.” It is the simplest demand, and the one most ignored. It confronts the normalization of family separation, the weaponization of ignorance, and a system engineered to benefit the obscenely rich. When did punishment become policy? Why is hatred dressed up as patriotism? Who gets erased so others can feel powerful? This collage illustrates the Trumpster fire” accosting our current policy on immigration, the money and the greed begetting the clown president and his pig army of I.C.E. agents intent on fracturing families in the name of control. Some continue to drink the Kool-Aid, yet more and more take to the streets choosing empathy over cruelty, humanity over fear. Through the language of fragmentation, disruption, and reassembly, the piece insists on visibility, accountability, and the possibility of a more humane future. Some still swallow the narrative whole. Others refuse. They march, they resist, they choose empathy over cruelty. This collage doesn’t ask politely. It indicts. It refuses to look away.
About the Artist
Collage is where I meet the world halfway , taking what’s been thrown away and giving it new meaning, new life. I choose scissors and glue as my weapons of choice in transforming cultural debris, forgotten paper, and visual chaos into portals that bridge the human, the alien, and the machine, melding technology with organic substance. Digging through the wreckage of culture to find hidden stories, then layering them into dreamlike worlds. It’s an endless dialogue between destruction and imagination, where every cut and paste, every layer reveals another possibility. It’s how I reclaim beauty from overload, building worlds where the discarded becomes divine. It’s my meditation and rebellion at once, a way to turn the madness of modern life into something mysterious and beautiful.
https://www.instagram.com/wildthingstudiosart/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.