Sit Tight (from the "Phantasmagoria" series) Print

I'm fascinated by the fashion industry. To look at me, you'd never know this! However, I'm drawn to the world of high fashion because of its beauty (the models, the clothes), and strangeness, its playfulness, its surrealism, its excess... I subscribe to several fashion magazines for all the reasons I listed above, but especially because I love fashion photography. I'm a trained photographer, so I have a strong appreciation for the incredible technical expertise that goes into orchestrating a photo shoot. I'm constantly amazed by how inventive the photographs are -- the sets, the color, and the "performances" of the models. The collages I'm presenting here are a tribute to the photographs I see in the magazines -- but they're also a big departure. Briefly, this is my method: I love the tactile, the handling of my materials; I begin by cutting out figures and other elements from the magazine pages, then proceed to erase most of the image. This may seem absurd, but in doing so, I can "riff" off of the original image, while having a relatively clean slate on which to create my own world. It is a very intuitive process. I add flowers, ladders, rocks and other forms that I cut out of the magazines, as well as colored paper, and pastel and paint. The world that remains is part fantasy, part mystical, part playful. And joyful. A new kind of beauty. The meaning of the work is very much open to the viewer -- I enjoy letting the viewer generate her/his own ideas about the work. But most of all, I hope to bring joy to the viewer.

Print:Giclee on Canvas

Size:16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in

Size with Frame:17.75 W x 21.75 H x 1.25 D in

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