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COLLAGE: SELECTION-DISSECTION-CONNECTION...

After an unexpected and needed move out of my studio space, I started working on smaller pieces of paper, adding ink and watercolor to some of my older drawings that I found around my parents' house. Everything felt disconnected. My thoughts began separating older images into shapes first, inside the watercolors, and combining watercolors to drawings and watercolors to watercolors and drawings to drawings. I was choosing sections and making shapes out of old ideas – selecting. Dissecting and connecting pieces of my older work gave me a big room for new ideas so much needed at the moment. I was inside the process – when paintings, drawings, or anything else you are creating at the moment makes themselves for you because you are giving them everything they need in exactly the right way at exactly the right time. My thoughts materialized into shapes, shapes into images, and images into untold stories. At the end of May, I invited other artists to add to the project by giving me unneeded work on paper. In the following Summer of 2021, a year later, I was making a color paper in a printer’s studio. This created a next layer of the Collage project.  

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