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Cyrus
@mxjagger.bsky.social
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Collage artist, they/them
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Grief Poem No. 4 2025.11.16
Hand cut paper collage with tessellated abstract shapes in primarily red, blues, and grays. Some partial faces are visible. Text reads “Oh it was so bad but—“
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Hand cut paper collage comprised of black & white images. An androgynous Black face is the central image but heavily obscured via cutouts. Text reads “Before”
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Grief Poem No. 3, 2025.11.03
Hand cut paper collage in mostly black & white with small flashes of blue and red. The faces of several midcentury white businessmen are partially visible. Text reads “Did you feel like you needed an apology from him for lying to you?”
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Grief Poem No. 2 2025.10.22
Hand cut paper collage in tans reds and blacks. Thin vertical lines on the left side with more abstract shapes on the right. A hand is visible. Text reads “Your Parting Words”
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Poster with a central silhouette of the Statue of Liberty. Within the silhouette there is a collage of the famous photo of a sailor kissing a woman to celebrate the end of WWII. Text reads “Prop Thtr presents Diary of an Erotic Life. Inspired by Lulu: A Monster Tragedy by Frank Wedekind. Written & Directed by Olivia Lilley. Devised by the Ensemble Valeria Rosero Kate Black Spence Kenya Ann Hall Chelsea Turner Mary Iris Loncto Caitlin Schantz & Dylan Fahoome Program cover with central figure composed of a collage in greys blacks and greens featuring chain link fence and riot police. The figure’s head is a pillow and it is being held up by a hook. Text reads: Concrete Content presents The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Directed by Ricardo Gamboa at the Africaribe Cultural Center in Humboldt Park Reimagined cover of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. A bloody mouth and nose are visible with smears of blood suggesting the rest of a face on a white background EP cover. Brightly colored hand cut paper collage with overlapping abstract shapes. Text reads Sample Syrup in metallic cursive
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Grief Poem No. 1
Paper collage composed mostly of ripped abstract shapes. Hands and a candle are visible. Text reads “He didn’t have an answer.”
October 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Hand cut paper collage in grays yellows and pinks. An nypd truck and officer are visible along with the silhouette of a man in a headlock. Text reads “or pretended not to notice”
August 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Hand cut paper collage in grays, greens, and blues. There are two bold black rectangles at a right angle in the lower right corner. A man’s face is partially visible in the background. Text reads “a pistol in hand, the barrel mushroomed and split”
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Hand cut paper collage in primarily grays greens and blues. A central shape evokes Mary. Text reads “Everything kind of dries up, I guess.”
August 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Hand cut collage of yellowed paperback pages with white and gold abstract shapes woven through. Legible text on far right side reads: _How can your father kill_ / old hymnals in the corner / _whydja want to burn up a church?_ / empty except for himself / getting flaky for a long time before that night / quick, effortless confidence. / _whydja wanna burn up a church?_ / maybe it was too late for him to anyone / Then a slow / smile came to his face and he had upended the gascan / dropping his sandwich into the dust, / the strange sickness came
August 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Hand cut paper collage in mostly greens and grays. A ripped up photo booth strip featuring a black man and a white man laughing is prominent. Text reads “Who is your best friend?”
August 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Conversation with Olivia No. 1
Paper collage in primarily grats and greens. A partial male profile and windblown hair are visible. Text reads “Any Creature is to Be Subject to the Creator”
August 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Abstract paper collage comprised mostly of thin strips of overlapping paper. A handgun is visible on the left side. Text reads “What do you do?”
July 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Brightly colored, heavily overlapping abstract paper collage. The text “art of the design” is visible in the left hand background” and the text “What were burials like?” is centered
July 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Paper collage in black & white and shades of brown with many partial faces. Text reads “You’ve said that since childhood you’ve been death-obsessed.”
June 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Paper collage with brightly colored swoop shapes. Text reads “1977-1979”
June 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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“I could not talk to you about your death so I talked about this instead”
Paper collage with partially obstructed handwritten text in background. “Arthur Rimbaud moved to then [] after retiring from poetry (age 20, after changing the whole [] being shot by Verlaine). He had a house in [] city of Harar, which has a long and complex relationship [] hyenas, who are allowed inside the walls of the [] considered guardians against evil spirits. They often [] protected, sacred forests surrounding Ethiopian [] They also eat animal waste and help [] don’t know if Rimbaud ever interacted [] of the city but he was possibly [] exporter. He died young too, of [] Haile Selassie’s father while living in [] messianic and hugely influential figure [] Walter Rodney, who was assassinated [] of the same president of Guyana [] 3 years earlier, leased a tract of [] Temple Agricultural Project
June 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Paper collage, text reads “a stupid stick-and-poke tattoos”
June 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Paper collage. Background features a very dark scene with a burnt out car. A blonde white woman facing away and tying up her hair is visible through a shredded image of a dark haired man in a bullet proof vest. Text reads “Where Should I Live?”
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Paper collage featuring overlapping silhouettes with greyscale city street in foreground. Police truck, mushrooms, and a purple sky visible within outlines. Text reads “The Illusion of Geopolitics”
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Paper collage in mostly shades of gray with teal accents. Overlapping silhouettes with a cratered moon surface in the background. Police, hands, and a city street are prominent motifs
March 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Paper collage. There is a room with snow and a door ajar in the background. In the foreground are overlapping silhouettes in profile and mismatched legs. Text reads “should we be tough on crime and the causes of crime?”
March 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Hand cut collage composed primarily of black and white photographs with a rabbit, police, and chain link fence prominent. Text reads “which of the following terms do you find offensive?”
March 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM