‘As a child, I often wrote plays and performed them with friends. I wanted to be an artist who lived in an attic. I studied both visual art and literature in college and actually lived in an attic for 13 years.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Years before discovering collage, I collected images from magazines, gluing favorites into a blank book. It followed naturally that I began to use found imagery when making art: cutting, tearing and gluing orphan pieces back together in strangely appealing new ways. When I started including text from magazines into collages, the words were cryptic but enticing: I wanted to write too.<\/em><\/p>\n Poetry was always a vegetable I didn’t “get”, like beets, yet that’s what I wrote. Now I think poetry and beets are mysterious; steamed beets are especially delicious with feta cheese, walnuts and pomegranate juice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Working in multimedia is something like cross-training for athletes. Collage is like silent poetry and poems can express narrative embedded in collage more explicitly. The combinations are intended to create expansive experiences. Which comes first, the chicken-poem or the collage-egg? The answer is either or both at the same time!<\/em><\/p>\n I catch the muse’s seeds from conceptual ideas, observation, memory, and dreams, along with found imagery and found words as prompts. Being in kind with surrealism, I observe the magic of inexplicable coincidence.’<\/em><\/p>\n Over the coming year, we will be featuring her words and images here.\u00a0 I will start by showing you her art table, the collage which grew from it and the poem which grew from that.\u00a0 The poem Artist Poem<\/em> was first published in Woman Made Gallery, Her Mark.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n The Art Table<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> <\/p>\n
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