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A Promise Between Only Us, Mixed Media Collage on Paper

Status: Available for purchase. 

  • Dimensions: 11″x 14″
  • Frame: None, on paper
  • Rarity: Handmade original, all source material documented. 
  • Medium: Mixed-media collage
  • Signature: Hand-signed by artist
  • Price: $350US
  • Certificate of authenticity: included from artist.
  • Ships from Vancouver, Canada
  • Pickup available
  • Taxes and customs duties applied in the final invoice.
I believe that every piece of art and its collector should find each other through a personal conversation.  Whether that means visiting the studio in person, taking a virtual studio tour, or arranging your shipping, customs, and payment in a way that feels right for you, I’m looking forward to connecting, sharing the story of this piece as well as taking care of every detail.

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Exhibition & Publication History:

  • Feature: Photo Trouvée Magazine Issue 18 (2025) 

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Description

The Original

A Promise Between Only Us by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media collage on paper from the Albertine Series. I created this piece using antique postcards, archival pieces, found photography, handmade papers, and acrylic medium. 

The piece measures 11″x14″ (w/h) unframed. 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 A Promise Between Only Us by Robin Rivers

Paris, the city of light, romance, wonder. At times, it may seem cliché. But, what of its magic? Its way of drawing one in and reconstructing how we perceive the world? Through the Albertine series, I wanted to explore how memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original.

A Promise Between Only Us celebrates the Belle Epoque of France. Each element is carefully chosen and cut to capture a vignette written by Henri in which he is caught up in the history of Jean D’Arc and her beauty, imagining her as Albertine while on a photo club tour of Rouen.

Sources

    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain)
      • Nicholas Cochin, Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from “Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util” (1645) (PD)
      • John White Alexander, Repose, (1895) (PD)
      • Marcus and Co., Brooch, (1900) (PD)
    • Found antique postcard from Rouen, anonymous, late 19th century
    • Found art card from Leon-Jules Lemaître
    • Artist materials
      • Handmade papers, acrylic matte medium, handwritten elements

How I source and care for historical materials → Sources

The Artist

Robin Rivers works across photography, collage, and text to recover the lives of women the historical record left out, overlooked, or misremembered—not as reconstruction, but as retrieval.

That work takes shape in the material each inquiry calls for: specific landscapes she photographs again and again, found photographs, writing, and archival fragments. The result sits deliberately between evidence and imagination: precise about sources while making room for intimacy, longing, and the gaps scholarship alone cannot fill.

Robin creates 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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