Analog paper collage

Talon (she/her) is a queer Korean transracial, transnational adoption survivor and emerging found poetry and analog paper collage artist. At the intersection of identity, lack of ancestry, adoptee sovereignty, and abolition, she uses collage art as a form of resistance to disrupt the adoption narrative. Her work uses cut-out words and phrases found in a multitude of printed materials. This deliberate visual style pays homage to the adoptees who were kidnapped, our birth families lied to, and then sold to predominantly white Christian countries in the West. They present the interrelated issues adoptees wrestle with - such as the loss of identity, language, cultural roots, birth family and proving citizenship - and highlight the struggle against the adoption industrial complex when wanting to find the truth.