had a great day selling my work at the onderdonk house flea market in bushwick, new york. the weather was beautiful...like a maine spring day. the people, music and food were fun. i sold stuff:)

in the last two posts, i took images of older women faces from a knitting catalogue and combined them with images of younger women faces from a victoria's secret catalogue, then i added my own drawn embellishments. this has probably been done hundreds of times by artists making a statement about beauty, aging, sexuality... i am not sure where my work is going with this and how this fits into the theme of HOME. i like the idea of combining facial features that don't seem like they would go together and trying to make them fit, or trying to come up with a new character based on a combination of unlikely features. i was particularly interested in the victoria's secret model, whose image i used in the last two posts. her nose is very prominent and as a nose by itself, it might not be considered appealing. then, again, maybe no one is looking at her nose...

this sketchbook cover is hanging in maryland art place's "out of order" show. silent auction and 'buy now' event in this friday, april 13. this piece is 10" square, collaged with paper, cloth scraps, stitching, acrylic paint, marker. i made it in 2009 and got it out this morning to doctor it up a little for the show.