WAIT. WHAT IS THIS?
If you are somehow a random person that has no idea how you ended up here:
Well, hi. Hello! I'm Marissa A. Ross.
Welcome to Stepdad Collages!
Each piece is made entirely by hand from my vintage print collection, which now spans hundreds of books and magazines from 1945 to 1973: Sunset, Playboy, LIFE, Better Homes & Gardens, Penthouse, The American Home, Playgirl, National Geographic, Disney Magazine, The Practical Encyclopedia on Good Decorating & Home Improvement, and god knows what else.
There is no digital sourcing, resizing, editing, etc.
Every Stepdad Collage is one of a kind, constructed with intention—reframing nostalgia to explore domesticity, gender roles, desire, discrimination, and discomfort through a contemporary lens. The glossy ideals of the past cut, rearranged, and confronted.
I'v have been creating these pieces for nearly a decade and this is the first time the entire collection has been for sale, and I appreciate you checking it out.
YEAH. I KNOW YOU. BUT, WHAT'S GOIN' ON?
My mother is very sick after multiple comas, breaking her back, having brain surgery and now suffering from early on-set dementia. Her home is in foreclosure. You can read about the entire ordeal on my personal Substack, but yeahhhhhhhh, it's not great.
I'm selling all my art so I can afford moving all my shit & to help take care of her.