BACK STORIES

 Welcome to Back Stories, a place where I deposit all of the things going on in my head while I am working in the studio or galavanting around collecting the source materials I use in my artwork. I try to share a bit of insight into one working artist’s studio life, my hunt for the materials I use and the rabbit holes I go down learning about the histories, stories and hidden treasures lurking inside the pages of these materials.

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Stretched

I am almost finished with a new piece that I have started calling “Stretched,” created from the pages of a 1980s exercise manual – 192 pages of faceless human shapes in various poses demonstrating stretches for any number of athletic activities.

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