In Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau writes:
“The word ‘Game’ was by no means
accurate, but it was the term which Paul has selected to
denote that state of semi-consciousness in which children
float immersed. Of this Game he was past master. Lord of
space and time, dweller in the twilight fringes between
light and darkness, fisher in the confluent pools of truth
and fantasy.…”
Accordingly, one might say that ‘collage’ is
the mode of representation that Spy has selected to best
meet Cocteau’s invitation to fool around – an
invite that has long inspired much of her work. In these
works, worlds are revealed wherein girls drop like bombs
while flowers grow from decaying meat and everything smells
of strawberries, and the only imperative is that
imagination rules where logic once reigned.
COLLAGE