Recently I finished a set of seven collages for the 12th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange due in March. Dale Copeland from New Zealand is the organizer – kudos to her for making this event possible and past events successful!  I hope to see many of the same artists I have read about in this year’s exchange.

Here’s a sampling of my work to be exchanged:

Beauty of the Eye

Fertile Soil

New Mexico Tribute

Looking at these now, I can critique them all day long – I didn’t use enough materials, I had too much white space, the composition was not balanced, et cetera – but the point is that I tried. I tried and I learned…that I want to do this again!

Call it corny, or wheaties, or some other grain, but that was me eight years ago picturing new, profoundly healing “memories” and thoughts to the smooth saxophone of Kenny G. I was introduced to his music when I was barely eighteen and a boyfriend had the Duotones album on tape. Since then, through CDs, MP3s, and Sirius stations on satellite TV, I’ve listened to Kenny’s music and made it a goal to see him in concert. Twenty one years later I finally was able to see that goal come to pass. While masses of concert-goers flowed past the concession tables to their seats, no one realized for a good twenty minutes that Kenny G himself was standing there (even me, who got the surprise of my life seeing him on the other side of the DVD I was buying until he said something!)

Never give up on your dreams!