Traveling through the country side in Germany, the land of my origin, or in California, the place I love to live in, I am always touched by the rich color and texture of the fields of corn, mustard, wheat, rye, poppies or just the  dark plowed fields. The eye can not rest on one field since street signs, houses, gas stations, people, cars and bikes infringe upon the visual impression. 
Collage allows me to gather all these elements and bring them onto one plane. I construct my work in a way that background and foreground are one. Physically, my work is one fluttering piece, optically it is multilayered. The boundaries of the canvas are abandoned, allowing for flexible size and ragged edges - even holes in the middle of the work. Each individual element has to hold hands with the next one. 
My work does not actually look anything like the fields you see in nature. I take the visual excitement of color, texture and movement and - by dipping into my palette of stuff  -recreate extemporaneously the feeling the fields evoke in me. I hope the viewer comes with me on the ride.

Inge Infante, May 2008