Collage Asylum

Collage Asylum A diagnosis of insanity.

Be there! It’s gonna be fun, bring your kids!
10/19/2022

Be there!
It’s gonna be fun, bring your kids!

10/17/2022

Thank you to those that came out to Sun Daze Market! I had a blast getting to know so many new and amazing people!
Thank you to Crystal VanCamp and the whole Sun Daze team for having me.
Thank you Manic Habit for helping me get this gig, and for always being such a GINORMOUS support!
Thank you to all thank traded with me.
Thank you for always being so amazing and supportive and just a joy to be around!
Thank you for your enormous support and direction.
Thank you String And Steel Accessories for teaching me about airbrushing and being such a bright spirit!
I met some really amazing people, and had such a good time!
I’m incredibly grateful to all those that have been helping me along this journey!

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This Sunday!
10/14/2022

This Sunday!


Prints available on my website! Or as a digital download! -it’s all in good fun.
10/08/2022

Prints available on my website!
Or as a digital download!
-it’s all in good fun.

Ridiculous earrings, just like grandma used to make.💕**Earrings are market exclusives, unless you request personally to ...
10/08/2022

Ridiculous earrings,
just like grandma used to make.💕

**Earrings are market exclusives, unless you request personally to get them shipped out to you.

See you there!
10/08/2022

See you there!

Meet the artist: Name’s Christina, and I make collage art. Digital, Analog, Gluten free, whatever. I refused to collage ...
10/08/2022

Meet the artist:

Name’s Christina, and I make collage art. Digital, Analog, Gluten free, whatever.

I refused to collage for a long time, I felt insecure about my ability to dive into the heady creativity that is collage.

Then I met in 2019, who became one of my best friends.

He is a collage artist, and one hell of a creative genius.
He encouraged me to make collages with him and I obliged his request and I made a sucky piece of work, but it was funny.
Queue more collage nights.

1 year later it’s 2020. I had my second mental break.
I suffer from obsessive intrusive thoughts. I’ve had a mental break like this once before, but this one was BAD.

Trigger warning su***de mention.

I was receiving weekly phone calls from my doctor because she was scared I was going to commit su***de. She was a good doctor.
Even though I had started therapy, that s**t takes a long time to heal. Therapy is the long game.

So while I was just starting out on my mental health, I needed help coping. I felt so miserable I didn’t even think I deserved to laugh or feel any kind of joy.

To cope I started collaging again by the end of 2020.
It was the first time I had actually been able to laugh, like a true belly laugh.

Collage saved my life.

I really thought it was over for me, real talk.

So I would collage several pieces a day, sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe s**t. But I had one rule: “Don’t tac it down unless it made me actually laugh.”
I had so much fun laughing by myself.

I opened an online print and ship business where I had to charge way too much just to break even.

Nonetheless, I had some amazing support.

I wasn’t able to afford it much longer, so I shut the business down and tried to focus on more serious art.

That didn’t last very long, as nothing quite made me as happy.

Collage was my asylum from my dimming ability to keep surviving.

I am so grateful for the friends who have supported me throughout and continue to be there.
I am so very grateful to the man who help start it all.
I am grateful to the newcomers, and I am grateful to myself for learning to laugh again.

Thank u 4 reading💕

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