Location: United States
It all began at the Recycling Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
I noticed people leaving large objects—like old streetlamps and antique velvet couches—outside the recycling bins. I was fascinated—to me they were beautiful objects that needed to be preserved. Since I couldn’t bring them home, I started taking pictures of everything I found: galoshes, angels, glass bottles, tattered tarot cards and dusty jewelry. I was fixated and went back week after week for more.
I seemed to have developed an affinity for junk.
An advertising art director by trade, my Photoshop abilities were very good at the time, so I started making collages. My first few attempts lacked personality, but I was determined to turn these finds into art. Using my art school skills, the art history classes I snoozed through, and anything else I could conjure up, I stuck with it. Little by little, I discovered a pattern of interpretation and digital découpage was born.
An advertising art director by trade, my Photoshop abilities were very good so I started making collages from photos of the objects I found on the street. My first few attempts lacked personality, but I was determined to turn these finds into art. Using my art school skills, the art history classes I snoozed through, and anything else I could conjure up, I stuck with it. Little by little, I discovered a pattern of interpretation and digital découpage was born.
“Angeli del Balcone (Angels of the Balcony)”
Found objects, digital découpaged into art.
Found objects digital découpaged into art.
Found objects digital découpaged into art.
Found objects digital découpaged into art.
“Astral Goddess”
“Cloistered”
“Playing the Fool”
