As I sit in the welcomed quiet of my snug studio, an intimate conversation develops between my collections of old photographs and handwritten letters; and amongst the weathered maps and cancelled stamps from far away and long ago. Found objects and vintage ephemera such as these are the intriguing art materials I use as ingredients to create my collages and assemblages. I don’t consider my art to be at all sophisticated; rather, it has a subtle raw edge to it with a blush of sincerity. I’ve always had a penchant for collecting historical curio and the forsaken, especially those objects that are “perfectly imperfect” with the evidence of being genuinely time-worn.
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