Collage, as a concept and as a process, describes my work. Whether I am working with layers of paper, sound, or moving image, there is a collecting, selecting, cutting, composing, and executing of resourced material. 

Using layers of mediums of visual and auditory language, mirroring our post-post-modern lives, I am able to signify multiple meanings, suggestions, and moods. These references and cultural symbols become autobiographical for a Midwesterner (Indiana/Kentucky) who is informed, influenced, and possessed by art, film, and music culture. My research deals with the phenomenology of this cultural significance, as well as how much of our current moment is a collage using pieces from the past representing our retro-obsessive present. I take hold of identifiable images that make up my idiosyncratic identity and transform them into a unified aesthetic of the present and future.

I currently live in Hammond, Louisiana, teaching as a Lecturer at Southeastern Louisiana University in 2D and 3D Foundations in Art, and am married to ceramics/performance artist Kathryn Agnes Baczeski.

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email - chadserhal@gmail.com