Collage/Decollage Artwork

When the mood strikes, I create.

I find, cut, rip, and glue ideas to ideas.

I splatter paint on the collage with fingers, brushes, nails, sponges, and anything that seems to be the appropriate tool in the moment. They perform the motion of my energy, my aura; they help define my spirit, removing the layers and tethers that exist deep inside.

I have been creating collages for over 15 years. I do so because I recognize an innate sense of loss that is mollified when I paste a piece to another piece, like an emerging puzzle that asks to be solved. The more I paste, the deeper my satisfaction. I decollage, paint, and tear it to pieces, and find something far more beautiful than its original whole self could be. In the process, I find liberation from the yoke of the losses I will never regain.

For many years I pasted and painted—separately—to unfulfilling ends. I desired to truly express myself with paint in some medium, but realized that placing a paintbrush straight to canvas brought little satisfaction to me. In recent years, I have combined the efforts, and I now find a quiet resolution within myself every time a piece declares itself complete. 

A collage is a puzzle in progress. As am I. I work toward the whole picture.

Contact me to purchase or commission artwork.