Lazy Sun

Cheryl Humphreys’ latest collage works embrace spontaneity, weaving together fragments of her artistic past into something wholly new. Inspired by Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, Humphreys leans into Agar’s idea of “the fertile intervention of chance,” stepping away from her typically meticulous process to allow instinct and intuition to take the lead. Each piece is built from an archive of experiments, dye studies, and color tests collected over years and across geographies—where a sun print made in Oaxaca in 2020 might find itself alongside a natural dye study from 2016. These works are moments of serendipity, compositions that unfold in real time, offering a layered meditation on time, memory, and material. In Humphreys' words: "Agar called collage 'the mother of mobility', and defined it as 'a form of inspired correction, a displacement of the banal by the fertile intervention of chance or coincidence'. She attached great importance to the instinctual response and the ready collusio