Ligotée – Mixed Media Collage on Paper

The Original

Ligotée by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media collage on paper. I created this piece I created this piece using archival photography, handwritten letters, vellum, found photography that has not been digitally altered, handmade papers, and acrylic medium. 

How I source and care for historical materials → Sources

The piece measures 14×11″ (w/h) unframed and is mounted on paper. Shipping will be calculated based on location.  Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors.  The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.

The Inspiration for Ligotée by Robin Rivers

Ligotée is inspired by an exploration of  the nature of patriarchal power structures including government, church, and institutional marriage that have long partitioned women’s lives. 

Sources

• • Archiwów Państwowych (State Archives of Poland)
  • Paris Musées Archives
  • Found photography (thrifted in Vancouver, Canada)
  • Artist materials
    • Handmade papers, vellum, gold paint and gilding, photo paper, gel pens, acrylic matte medium

Notes on Care

I build each collage from public‑domain materials—primarily found pieces, archives—and note what’s known about dates and collections. Where details are uncertain, I mark them as circa. My aim is to honor the past—its beauty and its blemishes—while inviting you into a story that feels intimate and true to its time.

The Artist

Robin Rivers is a multidisciplinary storyteller. She explores cultural memory keeping and technologies of circulation—how stories and images travel between people and across generations. Her practice folds writing and original photography into her mixed-media collage process. She examines how documented archives and personal interpretation shape our shared understanding of the past and how preservation itself is shaped by power, privilege, and historical upheaval. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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