Shaylin Wallace’s surrealist, dream-like artworks combine the mediums of photographic collage, graphic and sound design to communicate her innermost thoughts and emotions. Her vibrant graphic style interweaves portraiture with a cacophony of natural images resulting in joyful explosions of flowers and butterflies blossoming from her statuesque photo-manipulations of black subjects, has become Wallace’s visual signature. Working singularly in the digital medium since 2020, her work depicts the symbolism of freedom as an existential struggle: “Whether it’s freedom from ourselves, society, racism, and more. I show it in a surreal way and use objects or insects to symbolize this concept,” says W...