Jackie Leishman

 “The world is collage to me. Even when I was mainly working with photography, I was always trying to build more layers, attempting to break the physical picture plane. That need to see what happens in the fractures and meeting places pushed me further away from the 

photograph and more into an in-between space, a space that collage claims. I pull from 

drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking to explore that in-between space, a space that is felt. A space that is both/and. Feeling breaks against what is seen. The seen and the unseen are sometimes at odds and sometimes not. The still life, landscape, or figure is the 

way in. It holds the form through which I work with and against. The subjects are not the end goal but a beginning place.”