Collage Art | Artist Statement

In my practice, I define collage as 2D Art using a variety of materials and techniques including paint, paper, ink, crayon, and printmaking to create an integrated collage on a flat surface. Minor fiber elements may also be included, but will mostly be acknowledged in my Mixed Media Gallery of Art.

My latest collage art series sets the stage for a new path forward in my art. As I draw on more personal experiences, I contemplate artistic freedom amidst mid-life introspection and uncertainty. In my studio practice, I specifically allow for daily exploration by intimately working in multiple media and styles. Each process bears witness to divided thoughts about my attempts at growth as a human, the state of our society and planet, and my determination to make connections between a past, present, and future self. Formed in geometric shapes is the child playing with the tangrams of geometry lessons, slowly maturing into the development of patterns and textures, allowing glimpses of nature and fantasy within a future intentionally and unintentionally formed and becoming multi-dimensional ghostly messengers to the present. I create deliberately and meditatively, pulling heterogenous thoughts into a homogenous design built to invite curiosity and intention. In doing so, I commit the art to the journey - letting the materials and shapes become therapeutic & symbolic ambassadors of discovery, and healing, with the determination to step firmly into an unknown future beyond the constraints of line, paper, and paint - a process which often leads me to form lines of poetry as I work.