The Edge of Perception

Influenced by her background in painting Collins goes to great lengths to photograph all the images she needs to create her painterly montages.
Derelict decaying mental institutions and industrial buildings are transformed into places of surreal beauty with carefully chosen, topographically fitting, woodland photographs, all taken to replicate the conditions she found in the abandoned buildings.
These environments exist only in Collins mind. They are meant to confuse and have a message that questions our impartiality with our natural environment. Collins narrative is full of hope for the future of the natural environment, suggesting the need for all human life to nurture nature and learn that to cohabit rather than eliminate could be beneficial to all. The mature trees are representational of nature's strength and ability to quickly rejuvenate abandoned buildings or ugly waste lands.