Since my beginning of time, I've had a love for painting, drawing and creating things of all sorts. My world consists of shapes and symbols blown with color that don't always make sense. I take what I see and paint, layer, rearrange until it's a story that resonates with me. I love collage and the permission it gives me to not take myself so seriously. When painter's block strikes, I enjoy pushing the wall away by doing a 'paint by numbers' or, changing reproductions of paintings from thrift stores. Painting a bit on the reproduction and adding a figure or two to change the scene intended by the original artist, I find I lighten up. This time however, I couldn't stop. Like a true Oregonian, I forged my way through, reclaiming the surface with paint and whatever I could find leaving only a hint of the original painting. Maybe I'm tired of our political landscape …maybe its time for more fart jokes. Whatever it is, I'm pretty happy to be creating.