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“As an assemblage artist, I try to re-create beauty or relativity out of the discarded, broken, and abandoned found objects juxtaposed with my own original 2-d art, old photographs, and words. These constructions explore the relativeness of color, shadows, and shape as well as compartmentalizing thematic associations of still-life, portrait, and landscape....empty, full, crowded and sparse, revealing and withholding within a narrative context. The importance is an overall feeling that emerges from a particular piece with contradictory themes and associations woven into the crevices. Disassembling, modifying and altering are an intricate and intuitive process as is the actual collecting of the objects and materials. Creating art that reveals the beauty in something otherwise considered an eyesore or showing the ugliness in an image or thing that is considered desirable is a consistent pursuit in my study of contrasts.”