This series of collages draws on imagery from Time Life’s educational materials to examine how war is not only fought on battlefields but manufactured in the realm of representation. Sourced from mass-distributed photojournalism and instructional media, these collages splice the visual codes of the Vietnam War—militarized bodies, lush landscapes, graphic absences—to interrogate how Western narratives of conflict are constructed, disseminated, and consumed.

Silhouettes are excised from each frame, filled with conflicting textures: camouflage, water, sky, and flesh dissolve into one another. These voids evoke both the physical erasure of the bodies they once contained and the ideological manipulation of those bodies through media. What remains is a rupture—history seen through a double exposure of violence and spectacle.

By reframing archival war photography as unstable and composite, the work questions how photojournalistic imagery has been used to sanitize, aestheticize, and moralize U.S. military intervention.