My ART Is MY Life Story
I am an Oregon artist. I connected with the arts early in life learning dance. As a youth and teenager, I danced, and I immersed myself in movies. I was also captivated by still black and white images. From early childhood I was in love with visual experience, movies, and magazines.
In dance I learned the pleasure of moving through time and space to music. Throughout childhood and as a young adult I learned multiple dance forms and performed. I found it comfortable to use dance and visual images as a language to understand the world.
My first memory of creating with my hands is shaping a soap sculpture in grade school. I recall the feel of the ivory soap as I sculpted the form. I liked the thrill of making something tactual from an everyday household object. In the 70’s …
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Did you know? I bike and make films about biking. See them online !
Fall Biking in Oregon In the last several years, biking has become a deep passion for me. I love the feeling of the wind and the emotional high of traveling along bike pathways. When the paths are smooth it feels like...
My cosmic self-portrait art pulls you into a new universe.
Feel my face change watching "Planetary Sisters" https://youtu.be/zDYL74zkgbE?si=FXKErQALozfCGNBv Planetary Sisters/The Transfiguration : Las Hermanas Since 2016 I have been creating art using my own face which you can see on my website. I was responding to the...
More About Making Art Paper with Recycled Teabags With Instructional Video
I thought you would enjoy more about teabag art papers. Creating with recycled materials is a long time art interest. Six years ago I attended a local class where I learned how to take apart and create teabags. I also...