Each artwork in this series contains other artists’ painted papers given to me in trades and as gifts. I ask artists to send me their experiments and failures, their orphans and leftovers, their unfinished and unresolved paintings, drawings and prints from their studios.  I connect these pieces together, sometimes working with as many as forty different artists’ papers, to make new pieces that are collaborations across long distances and with people I may never meet. I love that collage opens up the possibility for making new work out of old work, for making new connections, and for the ongoing conversations about color over long distances. 

I think a lot about where ideas come from. There is a practice in poetry where a writer takes a line from another poet as a starting place and then shapes it into their own poem. The first writer is always credited at the beginning of the printed poem in italics, like the words themselves are leaning into the sharing. I have always loved these poems. It feels generous and open: here is who I am reading and influenced by and also, these words have led me somewhere new.

All artwork is framed and float mounted

Artwork dimensions: Long Distance Color: Garden, 20 × 16 inches