Reliquary 10 is a mixed media analog collage by North Carolina artist Natalie Schorr.

© Natalie Schorr, 2026

Collage of drawing, steel engravings, color lithograph, colored pencil, ink on Twinrocker handmade paper
Framed: 18” x 26”

Sources for select collage elements:

The Floral World and Garden Guide
Edited by Shirley Hibbard, 1876
Wood engravings and chromolithographs

The Art-Journal
George Virtue, 1849
Engravings

Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America
Evert A Duyckinck, 1873
In two volumes with Steel Engravings

Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature Volume 2
Oliver Goldsmith, 1866
Engravings and hand colored engravings

About this piece: I was thinking about women, about being silenced and putting one’s own needs aside continuously with the direct message that one’s thoughts and desires are not significant enough to matter to anyone else. The feeling of a prickly thistle to the lips.