 | | About | | I grew up in a house where art was not encouraged so when a first grade painting only won fourth place at the county fair and I was told I lost I did what any thwarted artistic child would do. I designed clothes for my dolls, built a doll house and furniture out of cardboard boxes and construction paper and collaged a wall in my bedroom with gum wrappers. Age brought new challenges and new art forms including poetry, photography and digital art. When I retired all the pieces came together.
My work is a mixture of photographs, imagination, and junk. Sometimes a piece starts with my camera, sometimes with something I find at a junk store or yard sale. Other times it starts with a new technique or just the thought 'what if'. I first work my ideas out on the computer using photographs and scanned objects. Some of the images I work out are used with tiles boxes and other found objects becoming 3 dimensional pieces. Some I print out to be matted and framed using recycled frames that I refurbish making it part of the art. I believe everything has a purpose so I love working with throwaways and giving them new life.
Art for me can be a story, an opinion or an emotion. My art evolves as I grow and learn. I would like to eventually combine my photos and my poetry in collage and hand made books.
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