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.

Double Entendre — Having a little fun combining my grandmother’s collection of recipe booklets with photos of family members to tell “suggestive” 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:

Digital Collage (from vintage seed packets) — 1) Ethel (my grandmother, “Gaga”) at the 1943 World’s Fair; 2) Aunt Blanche, an avid gardener, on her front stoop; 3) Three Gals in Hawaii (Gaga and Pals) using a souvenir “newspaper” photo from that trip