Photocollage
Inspired by David Hockney and his “Joiners,” Terry Hastings began slicing time with photographs. By combining multiple images, he builds a visual narrative that stretches beyond a single moment, capturing character, movement, and story. These aren’t snapshots; they’re sagas. The result is a layered portrait that reveals not just who someone is, but how they move through the world. It’s part theatre, part collage, and all Terry, where time bends, stories unfold, and the viewer gets a front-row seat.
The category is: Photoshoot Realness and every side is your best side, mamma!
At the Palm Springs Art Museum, I stood before Agnes Pelton’s transcendental paintings when a stranger asked why there were paintings of date trees in the next room. I said, “That’s her day job.”
Pelton painted the mystical to feed the soul—and the desert to pay the bills.
These photocollages are my transcendental work: the ones that show what’s inside my head.
The math. The music. The mayhem of theatre. All at once. The ones I hope end up in museums.
The pool pieces? That’s my day job. They shimmer, they sell, they keep the lights on.
Both are honest. One is eternal.
