23 Colleen Rose: Have You Seen Me?

Colleen Rose, Have You Seen Me? (Triptych), 2020 Physical and digital collage

Colleen Rose, Have You Seen Me? (Triptych), 2020 Physical and digital collage

Colleen Rose’s Have You Seen Me? series features two fragmentary photographs of a woman from “Have You Seen Me?” advertisements, which have been placed in U.S. newspapers for the last 35 years. Often in the ads, there is an image of an abducted child or person and an age-processed photo of how the person would currently look. Rose’s tryptich is reminiscent of this, except the woman’s face has been cropped in two parts. The third piece, with the text is overlaid on a collage of Nam June Paik-esque TV Garden; a paradisical jungle with screens scattered about. Lush green and rose-pink paper accents the background of Rose’s piece along with an instruction manual for an unkown appliance. It feels as if the anonymous missing woman has been enveloped into this digital forest; she could be anywhere.