The 2016 presidential election results left many feeling a wave of shock and unease. Seattle-based artist Serrah Russell channeled this disquiet into 100 Days of Collage, a series of daily meditations reflecting on the past and the ambiguous future of a newly changing world.

Russell’s collages are simple, yet layered - fusing disparate images from issues of National Geographic and various fashion magazines to build a narrative that combines defeatist confusion with a glimmer of Molotov, hope, and resistance. She captions each piece with titles like "And how we have kept quiet," "This is to protect you, they said," and "The stars have died, but we won't know for years to come," – words that could serve as their own book of poems or revolutionary wall scribblings, and recall many of the cryptic passages in Margaret Atwood's classic The Handmaid's Tale. An appropriate subtitle for the project could be the novel's line of resistance: "Nolites Te Bastardes Carborundorum" ("Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down.")

Behold Serrah Russell's 100 Days of Collage. We've included her statement at the end of this post, so scroll, look and read on.

To learn more about Serrah Russell's larger practice, read this interview on Lenscratch.