3. A few new pieces

When people ask about my creative process I let them know that what I do is for the most part improvisational. When dance was much of my artistic practice, I was happiest when I improvised. A lot of people think that improvisation is easy, but I disagree. In order to make the best of improv, in my opinion, it’s best if you give yourself certain parameters before you begin creating. For me, in movement, that might have been using floor patterns together with circular movement while exploring themes of fear. Three parameters could have me going for hours, and from one idea, a next idea would come and so on and so forth.

I create the same with collage work. I don’t think up of what I create until I sit down in my studio. I have a colour palette, a theme and one or two images that I would like to use in the piece, but nothing more. And with that, I can just let myself ease into putting paper down and trusting that somehow it will connect and become a cohesive piece of art that means something to me.

These pieces were created with magazines that are from 1922. I have been thinking a lot about what life looked like for women 100 years ago. And I am partnering these with images of plants and weeds. I don’t always know what they mean, but somehow, it just feels right. Enjoy.