Featured in The Argyle Literary Magazine Theme Issue “Bucolia”

I’m excited to share that two of my digital collage works were featured in The Argyle Literary Magazine as part of their themed collection, Bucolia. The issue explored rural life, nature, memory, and the tension between beauty and harshness within the natural world.

What interested me most about the theme was the opportunity to approach “bucolic” imagery from a less traditional angle. Rather than creating idealized pastoral scenes, I wanted the works to feel emotionally weathered and fragmented, closer to memory than landscape. My collage process naturally leans toward torn surfaces, layered imagery, and visual interruption, which felt fitting for a theme centered on the uneasy relationship between nostalgia and reality.

The pieces combine vintage imagery with distressed textures and layered color to create something suspended between romance and decay. I’ve always been drawn to the way collage mirrors memory itself: incomplete, rearranged, damaged, and reconstructed over time. For these works, I wanted the natural imagery and softer tones to feel slightly unstable, as though the idyllic surface might split open at any moment.

One of the things I appreciate about The Argyle Literary Magazine is its embrace of hybrid and multi-modal work. The magazine describes itself as a space interested in the intersections between literature, visual art, and emotional impact rather than any single aesthetic approach.  That openness made it an especially meaningful place to share these pieces.

I’m grateful to have been included among so many talented contributors in the Bucolia issue and excited to continue exploring the intersection between poetry, texture, fragmentation, and visual storytelling in future work.