rude alteration is a group of photo collages on canvas that include Bad Manners, If I Were You, Girl Asleep, Real & Imagined Love, any place but here, and Why She Died.
They all involve a rude alteration of a well-known painting. By sticking a photograph roughly onto these paintings it creates a clash between the reading of two representational media. When the two disparate images are intentionally combined in this way it foregrounds their disjunction and highlights the juxtaposition. The works are on canvas because they refer, and gesture, to the history of representation in painting and want to disrupt the way figure and ground are read.
