Composed of over 3,000 meticulously hand-cut fragments sourced from fashion magazines, Navillera I operates as a dense symbolic ecosystem rather than a decorative image. Figures, architectural elements, natural forms, and ornamental motifs interlace into a labyrinthine structure that resists linear reading.
The composition suggests both construction and collapse — a world assembling itself from fragments of desire, mythology, luxury, and memory. Gold accents cut through darker passages like illuminated manuscripts, guiding the eye across shifting layers of narrative.
At its core, the work explores accumulation: of images, of references, of cultural codes. What once functioned as isolated signs of aspiration — fashion spreads, editorial portraits, objects of status — are dismantled and reconfigured into a complex visual architecture.
Nothing here is passive.
The viewer must navigate.
The collage transforms the glossy language of consumption into a contemplative field — where abundance borders on excess, and ornament becomes inquiry.
Original artwork by Maria Vetkalova
39 ½ x 47 ½ in | 100 x 120 cmCollage, VOGUE magazine, canvas
