collage

I consider collage to be a visual representation of my participation in history. The materials I find connect me to whoever originally manifested or obtained them.

The family photographs and portraits in my work come a spirit. I feel a resonsiblity to archive them in this way so they are not left forgotten.

There is a destructive component as well. In defiance of hetero-capitalist-patriarchy I rip images and advertisements from their orignial publications to create new narritives.


This medium, Scapbooking, was renamed “Collage” after its appropriatation by male artists in the Dada movement (Picasso, Duchamp, Ernst).

Due to its matriarchial roots, I find that my practice here connects me to the scrapbooking practices of  my matriarchial predecessors who did not feel the freedom to call themselves artists.

Their practice lives on in my work

SERIOUS

Some works I composed outside of my sketchbook with great intention and planning - public - for display - for honorInspired greatly by Albert Abers! This is an integration of my non-objective illlustration practice and collage

It took great thoughtfulness, planning (sketching), and measuring for great payoff.

These are portfolio works intended to guarentee my admission to the Art BFA program at MSU Denver.

THIS ONE TOO

I love this piece. I made this shortly after I recieved training in 3-d media.

Basswood and Cedar for the framing, I had to be very careful about it.

Before this, I would say I composed my c0llages “intuitively” (I still do in my sketchbook) but there is something very final about the canvas, and there is certainly something very final about glue.

Pensive in Movement

Again, I am always thinking about the movement of time and it infiltrates my artwork whatever.

So does male - female.

This work demonstrates men’s use of DRINK in manipulating women’s behaviour of choice:

The hour may be late, the man is desperate, and he intrigues the woman’s attention.

I created these artworks shortly after my divorce which left me homeless. I kept my materials in a duffel bag for easy access and composed them in public spaces. 


This experience is what made me commit to a lifetime of creating art.


I recieved many inquires to my artistic behavor in such environments.

Once, the manager of the Sport’s Cuts next to the coffee shop i was in stopped to look at the work. She began to tear up as she reminisced on memories of scrapbooking with her daughters.

I responded by sharing my own memories of scrapbooking with my mother and sister.
When I was making the one in the middle, i was on a patio, my materials battling a trying wind, I held them down with weights.

A man walked by and asked me what I was doing. I told him and he responded, “Well keep it up Shorty!” This is one of the greatest encouragements I have ever recieved

They are displayed in chronological order of their creation.
These are some sketchbook collages I scanned and editedin photoshop.