I am the repository for my family archives going back to the late 1800s, not just photographs but books and magazines, recipe books, letters, documents, greeting cards, jewelry, games, kitchen gadgets, and assorted ephemera. I consider these “found” objects because I didn’t create them or buy them, and now I incorporate them in collage, montage, and assemblage
and while not necessarily visible, we bear the marks made upon us by the generations that came before.
They’re in our DNA…
Cognitive Juxtapositions - Knowledge, thought, and experience processed in collage:
Double Entendre — Having a little fun combining my grandmother’s collection of recipe booklets with photo booth strips of family members to suggest “cheeky” stories:
Assemblage or 3-D Collage: Vintage photos and ephemera as collapsible collage:
Photomontage — My mom and dad and their best drinking buddies, using scrapbook pages and a vintage cocktail recipe book and addendum:
Legs — Using a childhood game and book to tell my own story with coded messages from the past. Notice the collaged faces have no mouths:
