As part of my art practice, I create collages out of found and previously loved materials: old maps, postage stamps, pages from books that are falling apart. I let my intuition guide me as I paint and tear and glue and embellish.

I start with one or two images that I've found in my collection of falling apart natural history and science books and magazines from the early to mid-1900s. These images usually suggest a story and, like an archaeologist or archivist, I dig around to piece a picture together. I'm not looking for firm answers, rather suggestions of what could have been, what might have been. In a sense, everything I work with has already happened, has already been documented. I play with those histories to create something new.