INFO / 411

Jermaine Clarke is a collage artist working across handmade and digital mediums to create visual worlds influenced by Afrofuturism, retro science fiction, fantasy comics, and hip-hop culture.

Jermaine's work explores the relationship between history, imagination, and future possibilities. Through the process of cutting, layering, sampling, and rebuilding images, I transform fragments of existing material into new narratives that center Black identity, creativity, and self-determined futures.

Jermaine's approach to collage is deeply connected to hip-hop production. Similar to the way a producer samples sounds to create new rhythms, I sample visual elements—photographs, vintage imagery, comic art, and found materials—to construct compositions that carry both memory and possibility. Each piece becomes a remix of the past, reshaped into a vision of what could be.

Alongside Jermaine's visual art practice, he is a Hip-Hop producer under the alias Astro Mega. Creating Hip-Hop beats, further exploring rhythm, layering, and composition through sound. Whether working with images or sound, my creative process is rooted in the same principles: sampling, experimentation, and world-building.

Through collage art and Hip Hop, I aim to create immersive experiences that celebrate Black imagination and expand the possibilities of how we see ourselves, our histories, and our futures.