Hi, there! I’m Rod Boyer, the collage artist also known as our thomas.

I have a soft spot for lost things and misfits (trash, overlooked objects, flotsam, ephemera, and the discarded). It’s the basis of all my collage.

My work invites introspection, sparks flights of fancy, and embraces mystery and wonder. It’s always about the deep potential of our inner lives and hearts, and the ways our material culture provides clues and contexts to who we are or might become.

My collages have appeared in magazines, in local and national exhibitions, on the walls of collectors and, perhaps most gratifying, in the collections of other creatives.

All this is to say that Kolaj has been circling around the intersection of poetry and collage throughout its history and yet it wasn’t really until Rod T. Boyer’s article in Kolaj 32, “Mind the Gap: Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage“, that we began to appreciate the degree to which these two mediums interacted with each other. In that article Boyer compares the disjunction that occurs in haiku with a similar phenomenon in collage. A light went off and we decided to organize a series of residencies with the goal of exploring the intersection of collage and poetry.