This story appeared in the April issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe.A young woman stares into a seemingly endless expanse. Have you seen her? She peers out a window in David Hockney's Beverly Hills Housewife, toward a distant farmhouse in Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World. Or, if you're looking at art on Instagram, she's the one gazing quite literally into space itself, where the uniform shapes of stars belie the cosmic illusion of three-dimensionality. In artist Eugenia Loli's version (which earned more than 3,000 likes—even the second time she posted it), she leans out a window. In Mariano Peccinetti's Jupiter Field, posted for his 83,000 followers, she stands at a fence post on… Jupiter, I guess. Major Manic's work is entitled Sadie and has a twist: She stares, while sitting on the moon, back at the viewer.But a passing trend is less to blame than the nature of collage, the medium these works posted to social media have in common. As when the introduction of new surfaces like cut paper in paintings led Georges Braque and Picasso to a more radical phase of Cubism; or Hannah Höch's newspaper clippings became a glossary of Dada; or Eileen Agar's juxtaposed printed pages and objects got people to see the world through the Surrealists' magnifying glass, contemporary collage artists on the internet have cut and pasted the cosmos for a style all their own.Continue reading on Creators.