Cocoon is a surrealist analog collage of a child's head emerging from an artichoke by North Carolina artist Natalie Schorr.

© Natalie Schorr, 2026

Collage of drawings, wood engravings, colored pencil, marker, reed pen, ink on Twinrocker handmade paper
Framed: 19” x 21”

Sources for select collage elements:

The Captain’s Children
DP Sanford 1881
Wood engravings

Other books with engravings of similar vintage

About this piece: I was thinking about children of privilege, and the cocoon that forms around that reality. The access to resources unavailable to others, the safety it provides. I wonder what it is like to feel safe like that.