Artist’s Statement

I remember when it started — me and making pictures with stuff. Now I know I was making collage, but it was always more than collage for me….a painting of a man holding a real wood and paper sign… an old door turned into a carved shelf with a lady smiling upon it… When I was a little girl, I would go to my dad’s workshop and pick up discarded stuff from the floor and the tables. “Dad can I have this and that and this, too?” I walked home dragging my bag of treasure from Dad’s shop I played with them, I glued them together, painted them and furnished my doll house. I was a junker from an early age. Junking turned into a career designing costumes and sets for theatre, TV and film. I found wonderful shops with amazing things for these productions and I didn’t have to pay for them!! I remember going up to a stranger’s house and asking if i could buy their old ford pickup and rotted porch rocking chair. Still a junker but on a bigger scale and with a bigger budget. And now I have come full circle with the creation of the Plowhaus in the fall of 2001 with my friends, JD Wilkes, and Lesley Paterson-Marx. Once again, I’m asking for castoff stuff, hauling it home and making things with it. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed finding and making them. I remember when it started —- me and making pictures with stuff. Now I know I was making collage, but it was always more than collage for me….a painting of a man holding a real wood and paper sign… an old door turned into a carved shelf with a lady smiling upon it…