This new series of work combines my interests in culture, digital media, photography, and the integration of painting with collage and imagery with abstraction. The subject varies from true-to-life people to fictional characters in movies, often captured with strange facial expressions and gestures. I am interested in the removal and retrieval of identity and information. The process of photographing television personalities is important as a way to take information and to place it with a new situation. I remove more information by physically cutting out parts and replacing it with paint or collage. Each piece is then mounted on canvas and photographed with color print film and a 35mm camera. The color negative is then enlarged, with the final C-print measuring 20" x 24" or 30" x 40". My intention is the ensuing conflict between the materials and the narrative.