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Visual 
Archive

A working archive of collages, printed pieces, pitch pages, reference boards, typography, layouts, and visual fragments.

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Some pieces are finished artifacts. Others are working materials: images, textures, type studies, page systems, and reference trails that helped define the look and language of a project.

Collage Matrescence by Kelli Reilly

What We Do

Modes of Work

Multimedia Collage + Commissions

I create original collage and multimedia image work, including physical collage, digital collage, scanned material, type treatments, print pieces, framed works, and custom visual commissions.

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The work can be personal, editorial, project-based, or made for a specific space, film, event, publication, or creative brief. 

 

I use found imagery, archival material, books, magazines, photographs, typography, and physical ephemera to build compositions that feel textured, specific, and alive.

Archival Material

I research and source archival material for documentaries, films, creative projects, and visual strategy. This can include rare footage, hard-to-find images, frame grabs, storyboards, reference libraries, color studies, typography, objects, locations, printed matter, and source material pulled from digital archives and my own physical collection.

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The work ranges from documentary research and footage sourcing to building visual reference systems for pitches, music videos, brands, films, and creative development. I look for the material that gives a project specificity: the image no one expected, the texture that unlocks an era, the piece of footage that changes the story, the reference that makes the direction click.

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This practice also connects to preservation. I am interested in how archival material is found, protected, contextualized, and carried forward, including through institutional research and my involvement with groups like the Archival Producers Alliance.

Design in Use

I create the visual materials that help a project become legible, tactile, and ready to share: reference boards, pitch decks, lookbooks, printed pieces, packaging, magazine layouts, fabricated props, motion graphics, and video editing.

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These materials can live at different stages of a project. Some help define the direction early. Some are built for a pitch, a shoot, a screen, or a printed object. Others become part of the finished work itself.

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This part of the practice is about turning visual instinct into usable material — pages, objects, sequences, and designs that help the work become clear.

Favorite Projects

Featured Artifacts

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