Tracy von Ahsen

Tracy von Ahsen’s analog collage practice navigates the architecture of identity, transformation, and presence. Her hand-cut works construct psychic interiors—spaces where familiar symbols like chairs, curtains, and fashion relics become visual codes for fluid selfhood and mythic narrative. These aren’t static compositions; they are portals—inviting the viewer into layered dimensions of memory, emotion, and alternate realities.

Through a deeply intuitive process, von Ahsen filters fashion, nostalgia, and pop imagery into channeled visual language. Her faceless feminine figures are stripped of performance, allowing them to transcend personal identity and embody universal archetypes. Pulling from spiritual awakenings in India and Peru, her early survival instincts on Long Island, and the friction and freedom of New York City, she weaves cinematic narratives that mirror both individual healing and collective psychic space.

At the core, her work asks: How much of the life we inherit do we keep? How much can we cut, reconstruct, and choose anew?
Her collages are not simply depictions of transformation—they are active containers for it.