I revisit my photography archives and use orphan images taken around the world, along the years. I print, tear and recombine them: mysterious seascapes or mountain tops, hand-collaged together. Playing with the patterns, the color palette, the shapes, the crease of the tears, I experiment intuitively, randomly with the fragmented, abstracted, minimalist elements. I create layers of space and time, layers of memory. I transform organic landscapes into imagined ones, akin to the way storytellers borrow from their memory to weave new narratives.

All images ©Marilia Destot