Ray Ogar’s work is inherently formal and aesthetic. However, additional levels of meaning ask, "how do we evaluate or verify relevant knowledge or facts?" This is done through the medium of analog and digital collage by way of sourcing imagery primarily from scientific textbooks, instruction manuals, and tangential didactic sources.

Thus knowledge/systems, thing-ness/ontology, and power structures by way of archives are peripherally interrogated. The work itself is seemingly serious, occasionally playful, and always strives for satire or coded culture critique transformed into fake textbooks, false knowledge tracts, and re-purposed factsheets. A final question: what happens when the collage with mixed source material survives to the future and not the original fact or knowledge base it is derived from?

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