“I feel that my collages give new life to discarded materials. I enjoy salvaging images and textures from vintage and modern magazines, books, catalogs, exotic paper, fabric, found objects and various ephemera and creating something new and long-lasting. Sometimes an image will speak to me and then the hunt begins for other items that will fit together with it. I rearrange the collected pieces until it feels right, sometimes ripping them apart and then reassembling them. Like puzzles, I discover different pieces that together tell a visual story.

From a normal viewing distance, one may see shape and color in my collage panels. However, on closer inspection, they can see the detail in every torn or cut piece of material. It could be a bird flying in a cloudy European sky or a geometric pattern from a vintage linoleum floor. I hope to convey that there is beauty all around us if we just look closely enough.”