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Artifact Number Five: Mixed Media Assemblage

Go There Now One day, about a year ago, a friend of mine let me borrow her time traveling necklace.  That's a long story that I'll save for another time.  The short version is that I was able to take part in an archeological dig in the year 1834.  The fifth thing I found was…

Charlotte Sometimes: Assemblage

Go There Now This assemblage is on canvas, with various papers, paints, fabrics, crackle mediums, taxidermy tacks and of course my altered Charlotte doll.  It is entitled Charlotte Sometimes. Go There Now

Death of the Apothecary: Mixed Media Assemblage

Go There Now I love Charlotte dolls and creating assemblages with them.  In this assemblage, entitled Death of the Apothecary, I've added aged metal wings and other metal pieces including old rusty nails.  In the box with her are several apothecary bottles and specimens with aged beeswax tops. close up of bottles before i added…

Phantoms and Shadows: Handmade Book

Phantoms and Shadows, the title for one of my most recently created books, is covered with singed vintage red velvet fabric and various vintage laces and trims.  The focal point on the cover is a 1930s brass picture frame with a ghostly image that I created of twin girls skipping rope.  Hand carved bone beads…

altered bits: the reveal

i created a compartment-box out of an old cigar box and went to work filling it with my "disCo bits" and other items that i had either found in the streets of portland or intentionally aged for the project.  it didn't feel complete so i took a drive to the oregon coast and found all…

altered bits: bundle two, part one

for my second bundle, i wished to do something with with one of the many doll limbs i had laying around.  i've had a long standing doll-part fetish and it felt only right.  i wrapped it with vines overgrowing a piece of wood on our property after fashioning a wire bracelet and nest of sorts…

altered bits: bundle one

i had created my first bundle with my son, who was just five at the time.  he wanted to do "an asian scroll" so we whipped one up and hung it from our asian pear tree.  here you can see it after months of swinging and being rained upon in the crazy NW weather.