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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.
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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.
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