Collage has always been part of my practice; recently I have decided to let this aspect of my work take a more predominant role in the images I produce.  I prefer to leave my work hovering between a coerced narrative and an open-ended interpretation.  I am interested in the power of symbols and the response to charged imagery.  My only agenda is to express my perspective on topics that interest and amuse me.  Ultimately the viewer’s interaction with a piece becomes his or her own. 
              Collage is not a contemporary invention, however it now dominates the media and popular culture that it had first called into question through Dada.  All of the imagery and information that I am confronted with daily form in my thoughts and are then projected onto the canvas.  Pop artists took our collective experience and focused it through a more personal lens.  I am creating correlations through the juxtaposion of elements found in comic books, mythology and science fiction with current events and historical references.  By removing these elements from their original contexts and allowing them to inhabit the same picture plane, I have created a level playing field where contrasting iconography can interact.  My aim is to provoke questions and thought about the world we live in through the collage of seemingly disparate elements.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            -Evan Fitzgerald

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