The collage artwork presented on this website represents an ongoing series that began in 2007 under the title Images from the Storm. Images from the Storm continues to evolve as a visual narrative about human sexuality, melancholy, remembrance and the beauty of circumstance.

The collage artworks are constructed from individual elements to form a singular whole narrative or story line. These visual stories create worlds that can evoke an eroticism that is symbolic, beautiful, uncertain, mysterious, delicate or destructive.

When I combined elements together they become a language that leads the viewer to experience these stories.

Each photograph, drawing, flower or paper ephemera has meaning in my life and is placed within a composition that intrinsically creates a voice or memory. In this manner, I feel my collage acts as a psychological expression during creation.

I partnered with the Kinsey Institute in 2011 and again in 2013 to review photographs and letters from their library and special collections archive. I was mesmerized by the collection and the beauty of the photographs, that revealed the documentation of intimacy and human sexual behavior with such diversity and honesty. I am grateful to have these powerful photographic images partnering within my stories.

I hope that the collage artworks within this collection provide compassion to alternative sexual behaviors and lifestyles, and add an element of beauty to their presentation. I hope that what is beautiful within my world of creation has value and adds insight to your journey through life.

Kirk Richard Smith

January 2019