I am an artist who works with found objects and images. This collection of images represent some of my most embarrassing, revealing and intense writings and drawings from my teenage years.
Wanting to unload the baggage of my hefty adolescence I scanned much of my teenage journals, sketchbooks and photos to this blog. The dematerialization of this stuff allowed me to examine it in a way that I otherwise would not have-as the burden that it was. To express the physicality of the burden I created asculpture of two boulders out of the source. The small boulder is made with my first three journals; ages 9-13. The larger boulder is my journals from ages 14-19.
I think this entry sums it all up....
Before
After
detail
Thirteen
In my room.
In Ian's Room...
With Mergie (my cat who recently died at 23)
Lucy and Eric.
Spring 1988
Necklaces=self esteem
11th Grade
Performance, 1988
Nothing says moody teen like a black and white photo of smoking...
1988
Scholastic Art Awards
Summer 1989
The family house is falling apart.
Hoate's Lake
Summer 1990-I am 19.
My Eighties Self Songs
