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Artist Statement:
I must confess. I have an
obsession – tear sheets. I
started collecting images from
Fashion magazines when I was
at Mason City High School in
Iowa. As an art student in
college, my obsession grew to
include Art and Architecture
images as well as Fashion.
After several life changes and
more than a dozen moves, I
decided that I no longer
needed my fashion fix. It was
time for a new chapter in my
life and time to dispose of my
tear sheets.
The fashion images on the tear
sheets no longer held the
appeal of my pre-child/married
life. As I perused the images,
I started looking beyond the
foreground to the blurry
images in the background and I
felt a connection. My
pre-child, easy-going life
seemed to be fading and
blurring away, much like the
images in the background.
Taking scissors to paper, I
started cutting up the tear
sheets, finding interesting
compositions within the
backgrounds of the photos.
I use the “mini” tear sheets
as a starting point for my
abstract compositions. Unlike
the slick images of the
Fashionistas, the reality of
the subject matter is obscured
by the blurry imagery and then
transformed ...
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