Untitled (Collage with Photos, Ticket Stubs, and Hotel Bill)

<p>A collector of souvenirs and printed odds and ends, Steinberg freely applied and riffed on them in works such as this one. This composition of ephemera and drawn interludes resembles a scrapbook page of mementos, except that each column of images seems like an independent sequence that should add up but doesn’t. The collage elements become word surrogates, components of visual sentences that “read” from top to bottom yet fail to form a cohesive story—just as the handwritten “captions” only appear to have meaning but are in fact only shapes that resemble letters.</p>