I began by looking through the magazines and selecting images that I responded to as having conceptual and aesthetic value. For example, elements in the two Images below, part of The Crap Gatsby series, appealed to me as firstly, the figure in brown clutches his buttock and seems to hang his head in despair, like a dork in defeat, so the notion struck me that this could be a snapshot of the imperturbable Jay Gatsby with his guard down, whining in anguish, alone. The white bread is a signifier of the bland, and of course the street epithet to describe the prosaic caucasian. And you are treated to Gatsby’s (animated) underwear drawer, upside down, open and empty. The spacial configurations, color palette and character of image set them on a new narrative path of emergent meaning, free from their original contexts. 

The work below right features a photograph from a Nat Geo article addressing counter espionage, shredded C.I.A. documents are recovered by the U.S. at a stage of reassembly, courtesy of the Iranian secret service. By removing the image from the magazine and pasting it to paper and adding the title in red, not only has complimentary color been introduced, meaning is diverted and the collage takes on literary significance. Is this a lost section of Fitzgerald’s novel, or it’s sequel, The Crap Gatsby… deemed terrible and destroyed by the author…mind the gap Crapsby!