It is in the space between the original photographic source and its collaged fragments - a space marked by ambiguity - that Friedberg stakes the terms of her personal vision. Discursive yet inscrutable, rigorous, poetic, and fiercely personal, Friedberg's encaustic photocollages of 1980-1981 provided the bridge into her sustained dialogue with the encaustic medium and with the displaced narrative, which continues today.