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February Contest Image
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The Joys of Spell-Check
People ask me all the time where I get my ideas. This is something I wish would happen more often:
Several years ago I mentioned in an email to a friend how much I liked Susan Lihn, owner of Wake Up Little Suzie – a great little shop in Washington, DC.
Before hitting “send” I decided to spell-check my email. My spell-check didn’t care for the word “suzie” and suggested I change it to “sushi”… and thus was a magnet born! Read more
Parsnip Boy to the Rescue
I don’t spend all my time cutting up old magazines.
Sometimes I cut up art books. And seed catalogs. Circus posters.
Pretty much anything I can get my hands on.
In 1998 I had my first one-woman show at a gallery in Portland, ME, and “parsnip boy to the rescue” was featured on the invitation to the opening.
Parsnip boy’s outstretched arms are borrowed from a sleeping dog, and he is flying through 18th century London.
The Early Days, Part I
It was in 1985 that I first glued the words “intellectuals gone bad” onto a picture clipped from a vintage National Geographic.
Overnight I had gone from stay-at-home-mom to sole-bread-winner, and I was, to say the least, ill-prepared. I made an appointment with a career counselor. She asked “what can you do?” I told her “I can make collages.” Right.
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