One of 15 in a series of imaginative birds flying over landscapes of one’s imagination while carrying hope for a bright future. With their highly repetitive early morning songs, in folklore, birds are often compared to the continuous praising of God with one’s fervent prayers. The art visually translates an ancient text, “Nature’s Song,” supposedly […]
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Working on a larger scale, this work using photograph cutouts combined with solid color paper cutouts is abstract; yet the title, Boundaries, makes the work more story telling according to one’s point of view. Are boundaries solid or fluid? Where do boundaries start and end? Are there boundaries within our minds or are they only
Bicyclist is one paper cutout collage in my Athletes Series, created to show individual excellence in a given sport. Like others in the series with titles of Swimmer, Runner, Golfer and the newest one for soccer, Beautiful Game, using vibrant colors brings more energy to the compositions. Paper cutout collage; 22″ x 29″
Soccer is known by its growing loyal fans as being called “the beautiful game.” This paper cutout collage celebrates the joyful moment in time when one accurate strong kick scores a goal. This is the newest paper cutout collage created as an addition to my Athletes Series, saturated in vivid colors which capture the exuberance
Life Chapter 40 is one of nine “life chapters” seen as one large installation, starting with Life Chapter 5 up through Life Chapter 75. These visual autobiographies explore the personal journey of my early and adult life. Life Chapter 40 highlights my return to college to explore drawing and painting, while my children were receiving
Chosen in 2013 as the cover for a catalog for Diaspora, a national juried exhibition presented by the Jewish Women’s Art Network/Women’s Caucus for Art at New Century Gallery, New York, NY, the collage Disentangled 2 manifests Mother Nature unleashing her unrelenting fury. Photographs transform into floating cutouts; familiar faces and places are no longer
LIFE CHAPTER 5 is one of nine “life chapters” seen as one large installation, starting with LIFE CHAPTER 5 up through LIFE CHAPTER 75. These visual autobiographies explore the personal journey of my early and adult life. Life Chapter 5 highlights early childhood weekend visits to adoring grandparents, where I played cards, licked hand-dipped ice
A commission by a client who wanted to surprise his wife with a very special work of original art to celebrate not only their wedding anniversary, but also to signify her completing a regimen of successful treatments in overcoming a personal health challenge. Symbolic stairs and steps become platforms to a journey manifesting joy and
Using a large collection of saved family glossy photographs, by reshaping them into floating paper cutouts, original images become disentangled to become intimate abstract compositions, no longer knowing the connections once made between familiar faces and places. The photography cutout series, Disentangled, along with other current work in this same genre, create their own visual
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The Sukkot collage, one of several works in my Ritual series, incorporates newspaper clippings from recent Santa Rosa fires into the composition, as a symbolic connection to thinking about the fragile qualities of our houses, that may not be so permanent after all. Sukkot keeps reminding us to question who is really protecting us. Collage;