Real Quiet Collage

*Abstract Placing*: Painting with objects to create flow, order, and balance out of seeming chaos - provoking a deeper appreciation of the beauty and truth in the things around us. REAL QUIET: Muted but alive, with bright bits of color contrasting with greys and dark browns, this is one of the earliest examples of using a photo as a stand in (in this case a shadow of a lamp), adding in another level of seeing involving representation of a thing rather than the thing itself. *How my Abstract Placings are made*: Usually while walking from my house to my studio, I will pick up an object of interest. Every thing that I pick up after is part of an unknown pattern linking each to the next - pattern, shape, texture - which I will discover when I fit them all together, on canvas. *CULTIVATED SERENDIPITY* I find objects; objects find me. I find pieces of stories: my story, your story - our story. Each object contains its own history, it's own spot in time. It wears this around its neck. This hidden history consists of layer upon layer of path and circumstance, built in like the rings of a tree. Moving histories, I create something new. One that fits the old bits in its mouth and chews slowly but surely. This new thing contains all that was, and some of what will be. It does not represent everything, but that very thing.

Collage:Found Objects on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.7 D in

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