Until recently I created art with one goal in mind - to make it aesthetically pleasing.  I even joked that my artist statement should read, “I make pretty shit.”  But eventually that wasn’t enough for me.  Art fed my soul but my soul was hungry.  So I started experimenting in my art-making.  What if I focused on an emotion and used that to guide my choices instead of simply asking myself, “Does this look nice?”  And so “Adventures in Online Dating” was born. We’re all familia

I’ve had a number of requests to share how I create my assemblage art.  I’m not quite set-up to create a video of the process but I did remember to take photos as I worked on this piece entitled, “Sorry.  Wrong Number.” I haven’t been super-detailed or included a materials list as this post is meant more to be informational rather than instructional.  Enjoy! I try to work with used bases whenever I can.  This is a masonite panel I  painted a few years ago.  The first thing I