Photographer Lebogang Tlhako uses collage to explore making up something that isn’t there
Fashion is all about collage; a bringing together of things that were separate. I guess memory work is, too.
Another influence was my mum’s photo album and the textiles in her wardrobe. I follow the lead of my memories — and collage brings them together. We had like three different floral-patterned mats and they all had to be placed neatly in the centre. My mom would reprimand us if we used them as “tea mats”, ’cos that would leave stains on them.
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