Piecing It Together: A Regional Collage Exhibit

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi was juried into a 2026 regional collage exhibit at Maude Kerns Art Center. (Eugene, OR). Originally created for a 2022 two-person exhibition at the Laurel Fisher Gallery, this collage incorporates illustrations of an Ornate Butterflyfish and a Fourspot Butterflyfish that were sourced from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The textures that interlace this piece—such as delicate lines, cursive writing, and fabric samples—come from a page of a dyer's record book housed in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Archives.

The title of this piece, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, borrows its name from a Radiohead song. All works in Dee’s 2022 exhibition were named after music she was listening to in her studio at the time. For this piece, the image and the song's title felt perfectly suited to one another.