All of my work includes some aspect of collage, a medium that suggests both physical and emotional dimension. Originally incorporating photographs and other materials into 2-dimensional works, my art now includes one of a kind garments and accessories, whimsical and haunting dolls, fun kid's stuff, and "visual letters" or collaged cards which often include quotes from favorite authors.
I have always been greatly influenced by books. Literature, biographies, and some contemporary fiction have provided endless hours of enjoyment and education. Some of my favorites: Hermann Hesse, Truman Capote, John Updike, Henry Miller, Anais Nin and Collette. Visual art, lacking in verbal expression is complete for me when I read, as I enjoy connecting visual and verbal ideas. Discovering my love of collage in college and in my mother's vintage business, I also found a magical story By Anais Nin. Nin, also loved collage in both its physical and psychological dimension. Her diaries and autobiographical fiction combined and recombined thoughts and poetry in a continuous, complex cycle. Known to the masses as a writer of poetic erotica, she was more importantly an independent thinker, a philosopher, and an artist. "Collage Philosophy," is a tribute to her for uniting my visual and literary worlds. In Nin's "Ragtime," a man walks the streets collecting a wild assortment of broken objects.