The Shuffle was made by Cherine Fahd in response to text, photographs and drawings provided by George Alexander. The work began with a visit to George’s home. Coffee and shortbread. Family photographs laid out beside Celtic cross tarot cards on his coffee table.

The work developed through a weekly email exchange. George sent drawings accompanied by short texts. Cherine responded with digital collages made from George’s material alongside phone images, photographs from both artists’ family albums, fragments of writing and AI-generated pictures. Each exchange rearranged what the other had offered.

The shuffle became the structure. Images, sentences, alphabets and references were cut, displaced and reassembled. Daily life entered the work without hierarchy. Drawing, writing, family photographs and found images moved between them. Authorship shifted back and forth, becoming difficult to separate.

In its final form, The Shuffle gathers these exchanges into layered accumulations of drawings and collages of collages, where text presses against image and image interrupts text, holding the rhythm of an ongoing conversation.