melanie garcia

Single art, digital collage

Latest Pull

An active member of Montréal's music community from 1997 through 2012, Malcolm Bauld began playing with groups such as Sissy Havoc and The Frenetics, then went on to release solo material and was an occasional multi-instrumentalist for Pawa Up First and Yesterday's Ring. Musical guests on his solo recordings included Michael Feuerstack, Abigail Lapell and members of teke::teke, Horses, Statues and The Sainte Catherines. Returning to music in late 2023, he has begun to release a series of home recorded singles.

Editorial Illustration, digital collage

Commissioned for The Marshall Project

Published in partnership with St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports.

Three images for the 6-part series reporting on the struggles of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to solve homicides.

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PART 2:

How We Reported on Homicide Investigations in St. Louis

PART 4:

Some St. Louis Detectives May Have Botched Homicide Investigations

PART 5:

As Murders Increased, St. Louis Police Struggled for Resources to Solve Cases

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by

Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project

Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu, APM Reports

Rachel Lippmann, St. Louis Public Radio

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The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

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The additional reporting in the series:

PART 1

PART 3

PART 6

diptych

Prunella Vulgaris (self-heal)

Carlina Acaulis

mixed media collage

each 11” x 14”

A commission created for Ele @le.programme.top , a queer-run clinic and study of functional outcomes supporting gender creatives with rehabilitative aftercare following top surgery.

Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)

Single art, digital collage

(my)self MIX03 - LIM

Fingerstyle acoustic guitar, atmospheric textures and transparently honest storytelling is what you will experience from Milan André Boronell's music. The single is available on all platforms.

Editorial Illustration, digital collage

Commissioned for The Marshall Project

Published in partnership with The Guardian

The Mercy Workers

by Maurice Chammah

For three decades, a little-known group of “mitigation specialists” has helped save death-penalty defendants by documenting their childhood traumas. A rare look inside one case.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

Editorial Illustration, Analog/digital collage

Commissioned for Ciele Athletics Journal

The Green Tunnel

by North Bennett

If often you run through woods or the thickets of your own tangled imagination, then likely you know the green tunnel. It is lush on either side and complicated, with arching limbs that reach overhead to meet one another and enclose you. The sides of the tunnel are thick with tall trees, ferns, and stiff bushes, but through the middle there is a trail, clear and unobstructed, and along that trail moves your striding body, taking in its gifts. It is not often that the world furnishes such a clear path for you, and yet here you are, on it.

Editorial Illustration, digital collage

Commissioned for Font Magazine

O [Paque] Canada!

by Tom Fennario

“This year, I took the Quebec Coroner’s Office to court over access-to-information. Spoiler alert – I lost. Which is not a surprise because Canadians have been losing when it comes to access-to-information over the last forty years. And it’s not just a Quebec problem.

First thing to know: in comparison to other countries with access to information laws, Canada lacks transparency. In the annual “Right to Information rating,” Canada ranks 51st out of 136 countries with access to information laws, behind countries like Mexico, El Salvador, and Ethiopia.”

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Editorial illustration, digital collage

Commissioned for Émigré Journal

Émigré. What’s in a Word?

by Paul O’Connor

What is in a word? In parsing a term such as ‘émigré’ one must reach through the past and contextualise its dense imaginings. Some ingredients seem essential such as movement and choice, others like duration, intention, and return are more nuanced and subtle.

The word has its origins, or roots, in the French émigrer denoting emigration, or outward movement. The intent in this word is important. The immigrant comes in and the emigrant goes out. Exits. The émigré encapsulates both the centripetal and the centrifugal, they have a place, a gravity with which they are enduringly associated while they persist in moving beyond it, departing, without a clearly defined or scheduled return.

Album art, digital collage

featuring a watercolor by Erin Ross

Cobra & Vulture, Vesuvius at Home

Lava Cheetah Music

Recorded and mixed with patience over the course of two years, ‘Vesuvius at Home’ is the band’s first album after an eight year hiatus. The twelve songs on the album feature the band’s signature arresting vocals and an intertwined dual guitar attack care of its two songwriters, Erin Ross and Amber Goodwyn (Natural Sympathies), that’s kept grounded by the inimitable drumming of Jeremy MacCuish (Smokes, Nanimal, Nancy Pants, Parlovr).

Album art, analog elements finalized digitally

Natural Sympathies, At the Limits of Earth

Lava Cheetah Music

Recorded and mixed at home during the pandemic by Natural Sympathies (Amber Goodwyn) with contributions from a small crew of collaborators, these new songs delve deep into mental health and healing, exploring a sonic directness through stripped-down production and the integration of early demos and first-takes.

Musically, Natural Sympathies’ second full length album brings together fuzzed out guitars reminiscent of PJ Harvey’s more unhinged offerings, Zomes’ drone synth minimalism, Young Marble Giant’s skeletal rhythms and Kate Bush’s melodic reveries.

Editorial Illustration, Analog/digital collage

Commissioned for Ciele Athletics Journal

Through Movement and Action

by Kelty Campbell

When Prefontaine run squad learned of the tenth femicide of the year, they all agreed that they needed to help women affected by domestic violence. they would use running as a platform to bring the spotlight on the situation, and raise funds for a local organization.⁠

"Alex, like many people, deals with many emotions through running. in pain, joy, and anger, so that’s what she did that night. she met up with our crew, PREfontaine run squad in Parc Lalancette, montreal and presented us with a plan of action. we agreed on a plan — “pick your own adventure” with the total distance to amount to a marathon (42 km) raising money for La Dauphinelle , a shelter for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. La Dauphinelle’s mission is to provide a safe haven for women who are victims of domestic abuse, and those who are struggling, as well as for their children."⁠

OVER THE KNEE

8 unique limited-edition prints embellished with oil stick

each 17” x 21”

2020

collage commissioned by Jean-Michel Gadoua, curator of éditions8888 for the Wet Metal collection and design event that took place November 2020 at WIP Gallery.

design guru Gadoua assembled a collection of works inspired by and not limited to:

First cell. Black, black metal, forged, poured and scourged. Effluvia of radical freedom, Queb freak scene and universal brutalism. Neo-PoMo noise-pop sci-fi salvo. Feral tattoo, metal tears. Fractal convergence and -uncounted embodiments. Iron undressed, armoured -concrete. Cranked volumes and twisted loops. Perpetual rings, broken, toppled and ruined. Pedal to the metal. Wet Metal, the new moist, moulded mindset.

prints available at boutique8888.com

Editorial illustration, digital collage

commissioned for The Walrus

When Sports Fans Change the Game

by Shireen Ahmed

“Sports are political and always have been. Sports media can be a powerful vehicle to carry conversations about racial justice, labour solidarity, gender expansiveness, and even geopolitical conflicts.”

cover art and 16 interior images

analog collages, finalized digitally

5” x 8” , 84 pages

first edition of 200 copies signed and hand-numbered by the author

Daniel Baylis's first collection of poetry explores themes of romance, relationships, and resiliency. A Submission to Love is an emotionally evocative and visually stunning debut. This is writing that requests to be visited again and again—poems for those who have braved the frontiers of love.

layout design by Rocketday Arts

printed by Book Art

please visit Daniel Baylis's website to purchase a copy

Analog mixed-media collage finalized digitally

5-colour screenprinted poster for Polaris Music Prize 2019 shortlist album Working Class Woman by Marie Davidson

18″ x 24″ poster available in the shop

art direction by the Office of Gilbert Li

printed by Kid Icarus

Editorial Illustration, digital collage

commissioned for Figures de style

Si la tendance se maintient

by Ricardo Perozo

REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS: SA DALAWANG BAHAGI

paper, tissue paper, charcoal, gouache on paper

each 11.75” x 16.5” (A3)

2019

an open call was launched by Coupee Collage Collective to artists to transform an original antique World Atlas ‘Patria’, published in 1939 in Antwerp, Belgium. An A3 sized book with 366 pages of coloured maps and black and white pictures.

I selected the two pages that represented the Philippines.

The first exhibit took place during #worldcollageday organized by KOLAJ magazine at the Verbeke Foundation May 2019.

A second exhibit took place at Stichting KunstWerkt November 2020.

A series of analog mixed media collages and one digital collages experimenting variations on a portrait.

Photography: Malina Corpadean

Grooming: Nicolas Blanchet

Model: Andrew P (Elite)

mixed-media collage portraits of singer-songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage

photography by Richmond Lam

Photography and styling project for KALTBLUT magazine in collaboration with contemporary dancer Dorotea Saykaly.

Digital collages created for Esquire.com x Ford spring style advertorial produced by WRG Magazine.

The themes focused on performance, tech and design for menswear trends.

view the full project here:

Spring Forward With Style