My name is Kyle Van Heck and I make political and pop culture based collage art. I started doing collage art when I was in high school. I was taking these images from the newspapers and putting them into these notebooks or on the covers of these notebooks that we did all our writing in. And so it started there and then I noticed that there was all this stuff being printed about what was going on in the world. So why not build something out of those images, take those images that kind of reflect what our culture is, what our country is at this moment and then make something new out of them that hasn't been seen before. Usually the first thing I'll do when I'm making a piece, I'll take the center point, the focal point that I really want to enhance and then I'll take the other images and I'll build on top of it until I have one complete message. Newspaper as a medium is interesting in itself and that you can go buy paint, you can go buy color pencils, but if you're doing a newspaper collage piece and you want a headline about the stock market crash from 1929, you can't just go pick that up somewhere, you actually have to search it out, you have to find it, you have to work to find the pieces you want. If there's one thing I want people to take away from all this, it's that you have to make up your own mind about everything. You have to decide what your point of view is. You can read everything, you can see everything, but in the end it's your decision.