Luar
Luar is a PNW-based analog collage artist working with foraged materials to explore fragmentation, transition, displacement, and the layered construction of the self shaped by their trans and immigrant life. ☾
The Angel at the DMV, 2026
Analog collage on paper
8.5 x 11 in
Just a Little Guy, 2026
Analog collage on paper
8.5 x 11 in
Mother and Child, 2026
Analog collage on paper
8.5 x 11 in
☾Artist Statement
Luar uses analog collage to explore the construction of the self. Using fragments of salvaged material, they cut, remove, and reassemble images to mirror the way memory and thus a person, is assembled. Each piece reflects the instability of recollection: what is preserved, what is distorted, and what is replaced. Rather than presenting a fixed identity, the work treats personhood as an accumulation of memories that have been recontextualized over time. Through these layered studies, Luar examines how meaning emerges not from a single coherent narrative, but from the shifting architecture of what we choose, or are forced, to remember.