Featured in Content Magazine - Issue 18.2, "Sight and Sound," Spring 2026
I am happy to share that the spring issue of Content Magazine includes a feature article about my practice, as well as a series of commissioned torn paper portraits I created for the same issue.
The article, written by Samantha Hull with photographs by Daniel Garcia, traces the development of my work across collage, sculpture, and artist books - from my Binom photobook, which reconstructs the hidden biography of my father through a family photographic archive, to my paper collage series Broken Lives, which explores the silenced histories of political prisoners in the Soviet GULAG labor camps, including my great-grandfather. The article also touches on my concrete sculptural series Transformers and the broader questions that run through my practice: what it means to reconstruct personal and collective memory, and how art can reframe the relationship between private experience and political history.
For this same issue, I was commissioned by Content Magazine to create five torn paper portraits of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors: Sylvia Arenas (D1), Betty Duong (D2), Otto Lee (D3), Susan Ellenberg (D4), and Margaret Abe-Koga (D5). Each portrait was made using torn paper on board - the same material approach I use in my art practice, where paper fragments operate as carriers of texture, tone, and accumulated surface memory. The portraits accompanied short interviews with each supervisor published in the issue.
It was a meaningful experience to apply my collage language to civic portraiture - to work with the same process of assembling fragmented surfaces into coherent likenesses, but in a context that connects to the local community rather than to historical archives.
The issue was launched at an event in San Jose, where I had the chance to present the original portraits to the supervisors.
Content Magazine pick-up party, San Jose, Spring 2026
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