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Meeting Familiar Strangers with @a_collage

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“Our identity is usually defined around our face,” explains Boston creative director Molly Tibbetts Scannell (@a_collage). “It’s what babies resonate to immediately. It’s in our DNA.” She compares her collaged portraits to familiar strangers, “(They are) people that you see everyday in a particular setting but know nothing about.” In her artwork, Molly often distorts or erases the faces. “It allows anyone that sees it to illustrate their own story. Removing the ‘identity’ brings in a bigger landscape of color and shapes. It has the ability to tell a bigger story. Maybe you see yourself. Or maybe not. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.”

Looking back, Molly assumes her deep love for art and portraits is rooted in her childhood. “I grew up in a small bohemian town where a base of artists lived. The ones that we all were closest to as kids were mainly portrait painters and sculptors. So, perhaps, that was an influence early on.”

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