Daybreak
Maria Pianelli Blair
Daybreak is an analog collage, featuring vintage ephemera from mid-century books and magazines. It explores the uncanny sensation that drapes our dreams, filled with people, places, and memories that feel intimate and familiar… but just a bit off. Daybreak invites us to examine this “looking glass” effect and the unsettling recognition that this mentalscape is not our proper plane of existence. It conjures the relief, fear, and sometimes sadness that comes at the moment of reckoning when we realize the world in which we reside, if only temporary, is about to fade full force into reality.
Maria Pianelli Blair
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Maria Pianelli Blair is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Jersey. Her work can be found on Instagram (@sunset_sews). She has been published in Contemporary Collage Magazine; FEELS Zine; Photo Trouvee Magazine; Moss Puppy; and Chill Mag, among other publications. Her work has also been featured on the cover of Moonday Mag. Maria’s work has been displayed in both galleries and virtual exhibitions.