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Fall is garage sale season here in Vermont and honestly most of the pieces you see here in this collection where created largely with the help of materials and surfaces that were sources at these sales! I love to work with pre-existing materials rather than bringing new things into the world. One of the things I picked up was some very old sheet music and this is definitely mt favorite thing I've done with it. 

 

"Leave the nest and, Sing, My pretty bird."

 

You always had such a pretty song, the people deserve to hear your voice, I can't be selfish and keep it secret anymore. I know they'll want you I know they'll take you but you were never mine to begin with.

 

May I hear your song again soon. 

 

I didn't used to consider myself a painter, if you handed me a pencil I wouldn't know what to do with it. But, after having a year to just make without instruction, guidance, or a prompt I finally found my own path and style of painting. I've secretly been working on two different collections for the past year and both heavily influenced this work but provided me with the experience to find an innate and natural way of making that felt true to me. Since this happened it almost feels like there aren't enough canvasses in the world to fill all the compositions that are constantly floating around my mind. 

 

These pieces are purely were created absent mindedly, in a meditative or manic state. These pieces lived with me in my bedroom for a month and became a journal of what I was feeling, thinking and going through and now exist as a representation of this incredibly troubling time in my life. At the end of the day it's nice to know that beauty can always come from the darkest experiences. 

 

Mediums: Antique Sheet Music, Hard Pastel, Acrylic Paint, Graphite Pencil, Acrylic Medium, A sense of settle-ness

Canvas type: Hand Stretched, Gessoed

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Leave the Nest and Sing My Pretty Bird

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