Auden Granger

Featured Artworks

Inside the Inside, 2021 7.5"x9.5", photograph by Belén Romero A collage piece in shades of blue and black. At the center point of what looks like ripples in a pond is a bouquet of matches, lit and burning fiercely. Overlapping lines of color swirl behind it, teal and blue-green near the center fading at the edges to dark blue and black. Text curls around the flame: "inside the dark / inside the inside / dancing in the smoke / faint and faraway."
Learning to Live Underwater, 2022 9"x12" A collage piece made up of a cascading array of blue pills surrounded by mirror-like text. The background is shades of white in overlapping lines, with lines of text half-legible curled in it — medication paperwork with side effects and drug information. Across the middle float various pills in different shapes and sizes, all in shades of blue. Surrounding the pills is text in large block letters, shimmery and reflective: 'LEARNING TO LIVE UNDERWATER.'
All of This Can Be Broken, 2023 9"x11", photo by Belén Romero A collage piece in shades of deep blue and gold. in the center is a composite photograph of a skeleton, x-rayed through the burial wrappings. The figure is edged in gold, surrounded in turn by interlocking, twisting lines of deep blue, like ripples out from the center. Blocky, overlapping gold letters frame the image: ALL OF THIS CAN BE BROKEN.
Searching for Shipwrecks #2, 2024 7"x8", photograph by Belén Romero A large natural arch of red rock — The Window at Canyon de Chelly — frames a swirling teal sky/sea beyond, made out of overlapping strips of colored paper. Floating through the window and across the sky/sea are two massive jellyfish, sunrise pink and orange.
I Do Feel Small, 2023 9"x11" A paper collage piece shows a dandelion, gone to seed, haloed in swirling lines of cornflower blue paper, like the center of a rippling pond. Blown like wind and seeds across the page are segments of textured, translucent white and gold, and the words “I do feel small.”
Ghost of a Room with a High Door, 2024 A collage piece in shades of blue, black, and shimmering silver. Strips of paper are laid out in loose concentric circles, like a night sky full of stars seen through timelapse. Stars and constellation maps appear in the individual mosaic components. In the foreground is a photograph of a large blue-white glacier, with text framing an arch between the glacial peaks: "GHOST OF A ROOM WITH A HIGH DOOR"
Birkat Habayit, 2022 8.5"x8.5", photo by Belén Romero A collage piece in shades of deep teal blue and dusty red, overlaid with blood-red pomegranate chunks. The pomegranates are poised over a circular background, a bright gold center surrounded by a straight spiral of blue, then an uneven overlapping edge of faded red-brown. Around the edges of the circle are lines of text in English and Hebrew, partially obscured by the pomegranates in each quadrant: Birkat Habayit, the Jewish blessing for the home.
In the Gutter, Looking Up at the Stars, 2024 Seen from below, as if lying on your back in the street, are two sets of square terracotta style buildings with open shutters and slightly overhanging metal roofs. In between the buildings the sky is swirling, shimmering blue, silver, and black, with patterns of stars and constellation maps. It's loosely circular, like being able to see the rotation of the earth.
Loving and Unsteady Hands, 2024 5.5"x7.5" A paper collage piece in deep blues, silver, and soft whites. A flowering yellow dandelion is framed by overlapping, twisting lines of blue paper, backed with silver. Something resembling a moon or a dandelion gone to seed and windblown seeds swirl in the background. The flower is held delicately between two open and overlapping hands. Small italics text below reads: "held by loving and unsteady hands."
To Gain a Little Time, 2021 5"x7", photo by Belén Romero A small collage piece. Two torn black and white photographs, one of a group of young women cuddling puppies and one of a woman in a field of daisies, frame opposite corners. In between them, curling strips of paper in similar shades of black, white, and sepia, with the range of textures of vintage photographs, meander like a river through a canyon. Text over the top follows the strips, reading "perhaps to gain a little time" in clear, serif letters.
Never Quite Escape, 2023 5"x7" A paper collage piece in shades of pale blue and translucent gray. At the center is a photograph of a portion of a woman's face, buried under the criss-crossing, swirling lines of collaged paper. She's covered in clear plastic, warping the view of her still face underneath. The crumple and translucence of the plastic is imitated in the paper over her, giving the impression that she's buried beneath it. Above and below her are swirling lines of silver gingko leaves and worn, battered text: "Do you ever feel that way? Like you can never quite escape?"