I never throw anything away. My work forms from the miscellany that I keep around me. I have always collected things: postcards, objects with roosters on them, mid-century ceramics, fabric, tiaras, plastic food, Lucite purses, bride and groom cake toppers, string, fortune cookie fortunes, objects that are that specific shade of light green that I love, you get the point…
I work digitally, collaging images from my collection. I sometimes work with photographs I have taken as well. I strive to create a non-hierarchical playing field, a visual dumping ground, for objects that I find interesting (whether for their formal qualities, their implied narrative, or because they simply demand to be included!) I am fascinated with color and, on a certain level, could be happy making color compositions alone. However, my real satisfaction lies in combining these interests: layering, painting, masking, and rearranging until I reach the perfect balance of successful visual composition and charged dialogue between objects. In a nutshell, my collages are personal landscapes devised from a catalogue of images I have created over the years.
Recently, I have become fascinated with
the notion of beauty. In these turbulent times, I feel that people need beauty
now more than ever. I wrestled for years with the guilt of making pretty art;
now, I am allowing myself to make unapologetically beautiful work.