My work explores everyday life through surreal compositions that transform familiar images into unexpected visual narratives. I primarily work with digital media such as photomontage, digital collage, and animated GIFs that often resemble fragmented cut-outs. By overlapping elements and altering photographic images, I create surreal scenes that blur the line between reality and imagination.My work often carries a sense of social critique, mixing raw or uncomfortable imagery with vibrant colors to emphasize contrast and provoke reflection. I am drawn to digital media because of its versatility and the creative freedom it offers through editing software, something that has fascinated me since studying communication design in Colombia.In addition to digital work, I sometimes translate the images I create on the computer into physical sculptures, allowing these surreal compositions to exist beyond the screen and take form in tangible space.

About Me

Alejandra Casallas is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and international student based in the United States. Her practice explores self-perception, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by memory, migration, and cultural experience. Through clay sculpture, photography, and digital collage, she creates visual narratives where reality and imagination coexist, translating inner worlds into tangible forms.Her work often features fragmented figures, symbolic objects, and dreamlike environments as metaphors for transformation, belonging, and personal growth. Rooted in her experience between cultures, Casallas reflects on how identity is constantly constructed and reconstructed through emotion, environment, and memory. Her practice invites viewers into intimate spaces of reflection, where vulnerability and self-discovery become central to the visual experience.