Dréa is a nomad collagist, born in Canada.
Collage is the ultimate freedom medium for me. I can glue anything—old maps, photos, drawings, fabric scraps, recycled paper. It’s about using fragments of tangible reality to create a new universe where colours, time, and cultural symbols mix and move together in a dance, forming new narratives—vibrant, whimsical, and positive.
If you think there’s no political message in that, you’re wrong. It’s a choice.
I’m inspired by every country I live in, always meeting different people who share their knowledge and their culture. I use art to connect, to give a voice to what I learn from them. When Quechua women in the Amazon teach me to make banana paper, or a Vietnamese driver tells me about is life, riding in the rice fields—that’s what I want to talk about.
There’s too much focus on what’s broken in the world. I choose to look the other way. To glue together what deserves to be preserved: stars, trees, meaningful patterns, wild love, and communities that lift each other up.
When something beautiful comes out of my experiments, I feel victorious. It proves that time, geography, and culture aren’t barriers to cohabitation and peace. In contrasts the most powerful stories are.
Creation is an adventure, it is youth and freedom.
– Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses
Dréa is a nomad collagist, born in Canada.
Collage is the ultimate freedom medium for me. I can glue anything—old maps, photos, drawings, fabric scraps, recycled paper. It’s about using fragments of tangible reality to create a new universe where colours, time, and cultural symbols mix and move together in a dance, forming new narratives—vibrant, whimsical, and positive.
If you think there’s no political message in that, you’re wrong. It’s a choice.
I’m inspired by every country I live in, always meeting different people who share their knowledge and their culture. I use art to connect, to give a voice to what I learn from them. When Quechua women in the Amazon teach me to make banana paper, or a Vietnamese driver tells me about is life, riding in the rice fields—that’s what I want to talk about.
There’s too much focus on what’s broken in the world. I choose to look the other way. To glue together what deserves to be preserved: stars, trees, meaningful patterns, wild love, and communities that lift each other up.
When something beautiful comes out of my experiments, I feel victorious. It proves that time, geography, and culture aren’t barriers to cohabitation and peace. In contrasts the most powerful stories are.
Creation is an adventure, it is youth and freedom.
– Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses