The
Fruit
Medium: Digital collage, original graphics & design by Selden Grandy
2022
“non-representational
self-portrait”
My high school art teacher once assigned us a non-representational self-portrait. It could be anything we felt was representative of ourselves. What it couldn’t be was literal.
I brought in an old pair of Mudd jeans and a black t-shirt. My uniform of choice. I coated them in Mod Podge, glued them flat to a plank of wood and splattered some paint around. I had decided that I am what I wear, and that was as abstract a concept as I could muster.
My art teacher was unimpressed, and the finished product was too heavy to hang in the halls of the high school with the rest of the portraits, so it remained in the art studio until my teacher suggested I take it home.
This is a tribute to that non-representational self-portrait of my 16 year old self. Two decades of experience and introspection, and I’m still fairly sure my sense of self and my personal style—my choice of footwear, anyway—are closely linked.
Rocky Mountain
RVA
Medium: Digital collage, photography by Selden Grandy
Shoot Location/s: Richmond, VA (Manchester), Rocky Mountains, CO
2019
Medium: Digital collage, photography by Selden Grandy
Locations: Richmond, VA | Denver, CO
2019
Medium: Digital collage, photography by Selden Grandy
Locations: Utah, Amtrak NE Regional
2019
somewhere
warm
anniversary
print set
A vivid celebration of love, family, travel, and culture. With an amazing romance—set against the landscape of some stunning travels to Kenya, South Africa, Dubai—it was an honor to undertake this set for my client as anniversary gifts for her wife and her parents.
Medium: Digital collage, client-supplied photos (commission)
Location/s: San Francisco, Dubai, New York, Alaska
2020
Medium: Digital collage, client-supplied photos (commission)
Location/s: South Africa, Kenya, Dubai, NYC
2020
context
“What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness...
It seems to me that we need not engage in some fancy psychological experiment to learn the answer, but rather to look at ourselves and to talk to our friends. We then see, though it is unsettling, that we were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness—embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television.
This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”
— Howard Zinn, 2005
Celebrating the historic 2020 re-contextualization of the J.E.B. Stuart monument in Richmond, VA during the Black Lives Matter protests, which arose in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The J.E.B. Stuart statue has since been removed from Monument Avenue, but the fight to dismantle systems of racism and oppression marches on.
This limited run print is no longer available for purchase.
