Ellen Moore Osborne                                 Artwork

Memory Cradle

Mixed Media Collage, 12" x 12"
"Memory Cradle” reflects on how certain points in time and certain relationships serve as cogs in our memories, helping us move ahead through the circle of our lives. The rusted wheel serves as a cradle to hold the memory in its curve, creating its own rhythm.


 

Gravity Dreams

Mixed Media Collage, 12" x 12"

"Gravity Dreams" bends physics and memory into a dream state, where nothing aligns but everything overlaps. The space itself is unstable; stairs tilt, walls fold inward, and architectural logic breaks down. It reflects how personal growth feels disorienting, as if the very ground beneath us shifts. The sensation of spatial uncertainty lingers.

The Last Ordinary Day

Mixed Media Collage, 20" x 16"

"The Last Ordinary Day" is a mixed-media collage exploring the fragile line between memory and change. Fragments of roads, sky, figures, and architecture are layered to represent the moment just before everything shifts. The space here is both physical and mental; it's an urban sprawl that mirrors the disorientation of the mind when life changes in an instant. Though anchored in a real location, this piece could be anywhere. It is a space suspended between what was, and what comes next.

In-Between Moments

Mixed Media Collage, 12" x 12"
"In-Between Moments" sets friendship within shifting memory, where time is both present and blurred. It reminds me of how the presence and feeling of a relationship lingers even after the years pass. 


 

Dancing on Shifting Ground

Mixed Media Collage, 12" x 12"

“Dancing on Shifting Ground” blends a repeated figure with a landscape assembled from fractured memory and historical terrain. The ground beneath her is unstable, yet she moves with a kind of lightness that rises out of upheaval rather than escaping it. This reflects the moments when we decide to dance through uncertainty because there’s nothing else we can do.

Window Gaze

Mixed Media Collage, 20" x 20"

“Window Gaze” explores how the different versions of ourselves reflect back to us in fragmented ways. The figure at the window anchors the scene, looking outward, while he also occupies the background space; this is a portrait of the many selves we carry within us. I layered and fractured these pieces in this collage in the same way that reflection, memory, and interior thought overlap.