Deltiology (2025–Present)
Deltiology (2025 - Present) continues Scott’s ongoing exploration of collage and appropriation, guided by a simple working mantra: Find, Cut & Paste. In this series, however, the process shifts subtly. Drawing from an expanding personal collection of vintage postcards, Scott constructs compositions without making a single incision. Instead, images are placed alongside one another intact, allowing their meanings to shift through proximity rather than alteration.
The source material carries its own layered history. Each postcard references a specific place: landscapes, monuments, tourist views, but also bear the marks of travel and time. Faded colours, worn edges, and printed messages reveal the journeys these small artefacts have undertaken. Scott treats these objects not only as images but as artefacts and fragments of lived experiences, records of movement and memory embedded within the material itself.
Unlike earlier postcard works such as Chances (2010) and Paris Postcarde (2010), where cutting and recomposition were central to the process, Deltiology relies on careful placement and visual dialogue between images. A coastline may align with a distant mountain range, or a street scene may open unexpectedly into another geography. Through these quiet collisions, familiar landscapes fracture and reform, producing environments that appear both recognisable and impossible.
The works embody what Scott describes as “the experimentation required to challenge conventional ways of working.” By refusing to physically alter the postcards, he foregrounds the subtle power of juxtaposition. Meaning is refracted rather than destroyed, and the resulting compositions invite viewers to reconsider how easily context can reshape perception.
In their apparent simplicity, the collages encourage a slower act of looking. The ordinary tourist image becomes unstable, shifting between documentation and invention. Through these modest arrangements, Deltiology reflects on how we record, remember, and inhabit the world — suggesting that even the most familiar views contain the potential for unexpected transformation.
Deltiology (2025 - Present) continues Scott’s ongoing exploration of collage and appropriation, guided by a simple working mantra: Find, Cut & Paste. In this series, however, the process shifts subtly. Drawing from an expanding personal collection of vintage postcards, Scott constructs compositions without making a single incision. Instead, images are placed alongside one another intact, allowing their meanings to shift through proximity rather than alteration.
The source material carries its own layered history. Each postcard references a specific place: landscapes, monuments, tourist views, but also bear the marks of travel and time. Faded colours, worn edges, and printed messages reveal the journeys these small artefacts have undertaken. Scott treats these objects not only as images but as artefacts and fragments of lived experiences, records of movement and memory embedded within the material itself.
Unlike earlier postcard works such as Chances (2010) and Paris Postcarde (2010), where cutting and recomposition were central to the process, Deltiology relies on careful placement and visual dialogue between images. A coastline may align with a distant mountain range, or a street scene may open unexpectedly into another geography. Through these quiet collisions, familiar landscapes fracture and reform, producing environments that appear both recognisable and impossible.
The works embody what Scott describes as “the experimentation required to challenge conventional ways of working.” By refusing to physically alter the postcards, he foregrounds the subtle power of juxtaposition. Meaning is refracted rather than destroyed, and the resulting compositions invite viewers to reconsider how easily context can reshape perception.
In their apparent simplicity, the collages encourage a slower act of looking. The ordinary tourist image becomes unstable, shifting between documentation and invention. Through these modest arrangements, Deltiology reflects on how we record, remember, and inhabit the world — suggesting that even the most familiar views contain the potential for unexpected transformation.