Power Collage

Power Collage
The White Collar Project
From Foundation Seven — Collar Project Collection
Digital composition on printed canvas
60 × 90 cm (24 × 35 in)
2024

Westminster explodes into typographic chaos in this maximalist deconstruction of British political iconography. Power Collage fragments the seat of democracy into overlapping planes of coral, teal, and amber, where Big Ben's clockface floats amongst abstract letterforms that spell out the very infrastructure of influence.

The composition operates like a broken transmission — fragments of "POWER," "STATE," and geometric interference patterns bleeding across the Houses of Parliament until architecture becomes alphabet, and government dissolves into graphic design. Each visual layer competes for attention, mirroring the cacophony of modern political discourse.

The Thames has vanished, replaced by striped pathways that lead nowhere and everywhere simultaneously. This is democracy in the digital age — a constant stream of overlapping messages, competing narratives, and visual noise that transforms the sacred into the speculative. The eye searches for stability but finds only movement, seeks clarity but encounters complexity.

Big Ben still tells time, but whose time? And in what reality?

Part of Foundation Seven, this piece captures the moment when political certainty becomes visual vertigo — when the institutions we trust to provide order reveal themselves as elaborate collages of competing interests and intersecting agendas.