ROGUE PLANET ART GALLERY PRESENTS

Hail Scissors

For beauty is nothing but the beginning
of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies (The First Elegy)

Cosmo Homo – Ether Bunny 2025
Analog Collage/Giclee Fine Art Print
594mm x 420mm

I’m very interested in how collage holds contradiction, how sometimes distinct, disparate, contrasting or seemingly oppositional images or visual elements cohere; live together in each work.

Unlike metaphor in poetry (my other creative practice) which enables coherence/relationship by asserting an equivalence, a sameness, between one thing and another, collage seems to assert difference is an organising principle in its small-scale world building—difference is a unifying factor.

Understanding this, a kind of structural sense can be made of, or unifying order brought to, its component parts.

Hail Scissors

Hail Scissors is a regionally based—Dja Dja Wurrung Country—collage artist & poet. Their work explores the tensions between beauty & terror & high & low brow art.