While living abroad in Luxembourg, a small country with three main languages, Elizabeth describes that she relied on the way that design communicates using symbols, imagery, typography, and graphics. Beginning to utilize recycling as both a subject and a resource, collecting found advertisements from site specific places such as Paris, Vienna, Venice, Tel Aviv, and Copenhagen, she then used collage techniques to layer her findings with her own collection of paintings and prints. From there, Elizabeth concealed the work from herself by turning it upside down. While the collage was hidden from her view, she then cut and cropped new shapes that she used to assemble new designs. By creating what she refers to as a “blind collage,” Elizabeth withheld information from herself as a way to learn how to process living within the unknown.