Vanessa Woods' collages utilize disparate associations to re-imagine and re-contextualize contemporary and historical narratives. The material for her collages comes from a broad range of sources including art history books, photo books, vintage/contemporary magazines, found paper ephemera, and her own photographs. In each piece that she creates, the original image is decontextualized through the act of cutting and it’s meaning re-contextualized through new associations. In her current body of work, Recast, Woods uses the birth of her children as the genesis for an expansive project exploring the maternal body and the conditions of motherhood.