Constructed from over 3,000 hand-cut fragments sourced from fashion magazines, this large-scale collage operates as a dense visual field rather than a single narrative image. Faces, textiles, accessories, and ornamental motifs dissolve into one another, forming a continuous current of saturated pinks and electric hues.
 
The composition resists hierarchy. No central figure dominates; instead, the eye navigates a layered terrain of glamour, desire, performance, and constructed identity. What appears decorative at first glance gradually reveals fragmentation — beauty multiplied, repeated, and destabilized.
 
By compressing high-fashion imagery into a near-psychedelic surface, the work shifts fashion from aspiration to material. The glossy page becomes texture. The symbol becomes pattern.
 
Pink here is not soft.It is overwhelming, immersive, almost confrontational.
 
The collage transforms consumption into saturation —a spectacle that both seduces and exhausts.

Original artwork by Maria Vetkalova
39 ½ x 47 ½ in | 100 x 120 cm
Collage, VOGUE magazine, canvas