BRIER. — Art, design and vintage

My work is a collision of past and present, where nostalgia and reinvention coexist. I gather scraps of history—old denim, torn paper, forgotten trinkets, and remnants of a life well-lived—and piece them together, giving them new meaning. My art is tactile, layered, and deeply personal, often reflecting themes of resilience, memory, and transformation.

I’m drawn to objects that hold history, things that have been touched, used, and sometimes forgotten. There’s a certain poetry in giving discarded materials a second life, in finding beauty in what was left behind. My process is both instinctual and deliberate—I cut, layer, and assemble, creating compositions that feel like artifacts of a world that never quite existed but somehow feels familiar.

Influenced by pop art’s boldness and folk art’s resourcefulness, I weave together fragments that evoke memory and place. Some pieces lean into nostalgia, calling back to an era through texture and tone, while others push forward, stark and modern. The work is both an excavation and a reconstruction.

At its core, my art invites connection. It asks the viewer to slow down, to notice the details, to find themselves somewhere in the layers—to see their own history reflected in the pieces of mine.

— Brier Collins