PAINTINGSince I can remember I've drawn and painted with crayons, markers, just about anything I could get my hands on. I started painting in oils, my primary medium, at fourteen. While in school, I painted entirely from observation to train my eye. My process now involves a more complex series of steps where I photograph my desired subject over a period of months, then print and collage the photographs, incorporating images from through out the time period in which the subject was photographed. I think of this process as a metaphor for memory and how the act of remembering sharpens, blurs, fragments and reassembles the images we remember.
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BOOK BINDING
The process of making a book centers around the consideration put into the choice of materials and the execution of the book itself and all its steps. The process of stretching a canvas is similarly tedious, exacting, and relies solely on the painter's understanding of material and craftsmanship. My book making involves three basic steps, cutting the paper and assembling bundles, creating and covering the boards that will become the front and back of the book, and the exacting final step of gluing the pages to the front and back boards, and gluing the the decorative paper that becomes the pastedown and flyleaf, and gluing the the original watercolor cover to the hardcover case.
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COLLAGEAs I have developed and explored the painting process, post college, my approach has been largely to slow down and break the creative process up into smaller pieces. I use the visual memory the several years of observational painting has given me to inform my painting as I work from photographic collages.The collages I make from my photographs explore the idea that experience is complicated by memory. The collage becomes a metaphor as well as a point of departure. Through their making, I conduct a visual exploration which allows me to fragment and reconstitute the painting. The collage, an accumulation of broken, piled, and torn images, becomes a symbol for the imperfect joinery of memory.
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