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The work on this page
has been created since 2006
The themes and forms are varied, though
the common
ground remains: all of this work is created
with roots
in photography, and much of this work incorporates
collage
and mixed-media elements such as encaustic medium,
found paper,
and wood.
Paper quilts, photographic mixed-media, and encaustic collage are my instruments of autobiographical narrative. The work is fragmented, broken and mended. It brings together the past and future, attached firmly at the seams. Stitching, collaging, and layering in my work unifies discarded aspects of life, pieces of domestic space, and non-traditional portraits, both real and imagined.
I use discarded materials in my work as a way to reclaim the past and blend it with the present. My visual narratives are created by upcycling and recycling found materials and combining them with imagery of my own creation. The results are winding blends of dream, fantasy, illusion, and history, forming a reality of old, new, lost, and found.
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