Honey Jaeger (b. Hannah Jaeger) is a Los Angeles–based surrealist collage artist whose work fuses sacred architecture, feminist reclamation, and cheeky subversion. Under her artist name Honey, she creates hand-cut analog collages from vintage sources such as Playboy and Hustler magazines, architecture books, and ephemera… transforming them into layered critiques of gender, power, and media.
Her art reframes depictions of women once cast as objects of the male gaze into figures of agency and strength, blending surrealism, psychedelia, and theatrical staging into a language all her own. Recurring motifs such as illusion paper (a signal to pay attention), vintage televisions (symbols of media’s grip on perception), and her hand-made tentacles (extensions of the artist herself… dismantling, comforting, or disrupting as needed) create a signature visual world that is immediately recognizable.
Honey’s collages explore themes of bodily autonomy, spirituality, sexuality, grief, and the weight of inherited narratives. They confront patriarchal traditions and purity culture, often weaving in references to historical art and literature… Caravaggio, Rubens, Manet, Dalí, Poe, not as homage, but as reimaginings, reframings, and confrontations.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, and each collage is created entirely by hand, paper on paper, a deliberate resistance against the ease of digital artmaking.