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I was pretty happy to find this in the mailbox today. It’s the current issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine and yours truly is the featured artist with a three page spread. I’m so grateful to the editor Jeannine Stein for asking me to do this and for the whole team for helping put this together. I’ve been pretty absorbed in cleaning stuff out of my studio lately but suddenly I’m getting the itch to make more art…

 

 

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Earlier this month I took a four day trip down to Scottsdale, Arizona, primarily to attend my opening reception for my show, Land of the Living, at Xanadu Gallery. I took some photos and video, and recently got some from the gallery owner, Jason Horejs, and put a little video together to show you what the trip was like.

I’ve been having fun making the occasional movie and I’ve started posted them on YouTube, so feel free to follow me there, if you like.

 

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This piece was pretty unusual in that I suddenly had an image in my mind while sitting in a church service. The lyrics of a song, “land of the living” had stuck in my mind and I first had an image of a tree growing out of a nest with roots coming from below, which I quickly sketched in the border of the bulletin I had with the lyrics, which became the title for the piece. This is also the first piece that I collaged together different photos in a surrealistic manner, and when I sat down to play with different photos, I much preferred the flowers growing out of the nest to a tree. When I work with photos to collage together, I’m not comfortable working on the computer, but rather I prefer to print out lots of small images and play with them together, like working with a jigsaw puzzle. The text that is in a receding layer, is actually a Psalm that includes the title phrase. I’ve also included photos of insects, including a cicada, another insect that goes through metamorphosis and speaks of life transformation, a recurrent theme in many of my pieces.

 

Land of the Living is currently available at Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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