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photo collages

(in process)

five objects that mean home. i couldn't choose only five so i experimented with multiple collages and different variations of objects. some are hidden, not showing their true potential. but like things that way. if you show everything of yourself, no one will want to look further.

but there is still truth. truth that breathes heavily...even sadly.

i'm not sure where these pieces are going...but they will make it there eventually.

printmaking-line etching

design for line etching

(reversed)

first project for printmaking...something totally new to me. this is the photocopied drawing that i've already put onto my copper plate. etching with acid on wednesday. progress to come :)

the beginning

i recently went digging to find more information on my father's old house, which was torn down at least 10 years ago. the "manor"...i know, fancy right? was called cherryhurst and was built in 1907 by paul harvey deming. my grandfather bought cherryhurst after the family came back from a 10 year stay in london, england. the home was one of the first year-round houses built on lake saint clair. in the photo where you see the backyard (which actually faced the lake), there is a statue...which my grandfather brought back from england and my father helped place there.

it's incredible to see a photos of a house i'd heard so much about but never got to step foot in. things are always different than you imagined of course.

my father told me that he and his friends used to play dangerous games of tag on the roof, but i never thought it would be on such a steep playing field.

when his mother would annoy him, my father would pick her up and sit her atop the mantle of the fireplace, but i don't know if it's the fireplace in the photo.

my aunts (judy the oldest and jackie the youngest) would grab their sister jill (the middle one) by her ankles and wrists and threaten to toss her down the stairs. jill was somewhat of a nuisance then.

this big old house got to see all of this.