butter

i used this piece as my facebook invite image for my art reception. i am showing all these pieces at the Alibi Room during the month of August. it's my first show of my collage work.

tantilize

jigsaw

bedeviled

lullaby

untitled

my original piece using the 45 sleeves. i made it as cd over art for a "mix tape" i made for my sister and some friends. it was almost two years later before I started making more pieces with 45 sleeves.

hope

gossip

mother

for my sister Abby, on her 23rd birthday. my sister and i spent our childhood watching my mother sew...

this 45 sleeve was my mother's. she wrote her name on it, Ellen Zak. the butterflies are from a children's insect book. the older girl and the mother sewing are from a second reader, 1926 from the state of kansas. the younger girl is from a mother goose book that belonged to my aunt Carole. the tulips are from a story of goldilocks & the three bears. the fabric backing is from the lining of a vintage coat my mother gave me to use in a photo shoot for college.

fragmented

impressions

intemperate

follow

goading

preoccupied

despair

untitled...

soaring

I added more mushrooms after thinking it needed more of them. 8.9.12

deluge

hand bill

flying kites

first created as a cd cover. tornado picture from an energy book. boys from an old color film ad found in a vintage photo magazine.

then i used it as a facebook flier for an oc notes show at hollow earth radio. the words i cut from stickers i got at the station.

broken

jig-itty-jig

psyche

found one more flower months later in my scarp collage box.

domestic

nevermore

an oldie but one of the few i've kept. the card is of new york, my mother gave me a box set one christmas years ago. the camera man is from a album poster i got in the free bin at easy street records. the woman is a fashion tear sheet that my great aunt nancy saved for herself. the moon i made with yellow card stock and photoshop. the raven is from a restaurant business card.

summon

made at my friend Leesa's house. white card kept 4x5 negatives flat after development. image of home and grass found cut as is. boy and balloons from an outdated english school book in the short story section. 

a few months later i altered it and used it as a birthday announcement. the letters were cut from stickers i had from hollow earth radio.

wistful

created at a friend's home with her collage material. vincent van gogh postcard of Bedroom in Arles. birds from an audubon bird book, sitting man from a story book, crown from a business card.

carole's thank you note

mark rothko card purchased as a box set at goodwill. flowers are from scrap thank you notes where I messed up my writing and a book mark.

new blog

a place for my collages. all materials are found.