Collage Series, 2015
Acrylic collage on paper and archival mat board

Noticing the drips on her plastic drop cloth from painting, Sykes collected the drips, and collaged them into new gestural, abstract forms—a collaboration between the mediums of painting and collage. Similar to the Naples Photographs, Sykes built on this discovery to employ a multistep process that transmuted the original material and brought an image on the margins (leftover paint drips) into the center of the conversation.