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Roots and Roads #4

Roots and Roads #4 is a large collage that spans both the Roots and Roads series and Reverse Archaeology theme of visiting past stories. It began with the tree trunk cross section in the lower left, which has small photos of me as a child, family members, ticket stubs, and other personal mementos. I hand […]

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Pink Moon

Pink Moon was inspired by June’s full moon called the Strawberry Moon. Part of the Elementals series, this piece a continuation of my attempts to distill visual images down to the most essential parts. I have a tendency to over-complicate things: when I’m making a collage, I tend to keep adding and adding and adding […]

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The Magpie’s Eye, a collage

The Magpie’s Eye is the first full-size artwork that I’ve made in my new basement studio. Adjusting to a new studio always takes time. I haven’t worked on any real artwork since last fall – before we moved the gallery – so I was feeling rusty. To get back into practice, I’d been making smaller […]

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Gallery Reverse Archeology

Seven Sisters, a collage

For inspiration for this collage, I turned to the Nebra Sky Disk, perhaps the oldest known depiction of the night sky. It was used to mark the solstices and help the people of the time understand the world around them. The disk includes the constellation Pleiades – the Seven Sisters – which made me think […]

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Pen Fetish, an assemblage

A thousand years from now, when archaeologists unearth my home, they will be mystified by the quantity of pens and pencils they find: in every drawer, between couch cushions, in jacket pockets, on tables, and in jars. Everywhere! What on earth happened in this house?! I can’t pass up a stationery display, ever. Online or […]

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In The Beginning, an assemblage

A question I’m often asked is, “When did you become an artist?”, or the variation, “When did you start making art?” The answer to both is that I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t drawing or painting or making something. My earliest memories are of holding a pencil and scratching at a piece of […]

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Offering 1 and 2 (Pink and Blue)

Hands mean so much to us. They can mean start or stop, come or stay away, hello or goodbye, give or receive, and so much more. What do they mean to you? Hands are so expressive, as expressive as our faces, and such interesting shapes. I love that these two are blooming, and seem to […]

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Gallery Reverse Archeology

My Darling Clementine

My mom and her sisters were a tight-knit bunch. Separated by age, careers, and geography, the Clemens Sisters didn’t see each other often, but when they did – it was as if they had never been apart. This piece is based on one of the few photographs we have of them as adults. Though it […]

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Gallery Reverse Archeology

Reverse Archaeology, an exhibit

Excavate. Investigate. Re-create. In this exhibit titled Reverse Archaeology, my friend Shannon Casey and I have created a series of artworks to explore layers of time and memory. Those themes have reoccurred in our artwork over the past few years and we wanted to delve further into them. We call this exhibit Reverse Archaeology because […]

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100 Days of Collage: Days 81-100 and Wrapup

Wow, it’s done! This last set of collages was the most difficult yet. I fell behind again, but managed again to catch up. I almost quit around the mid-80s but figured if I was that close, I HAD to keep going. Does it feel good? Yes, definitely. I am happy that I did the 100 […]