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My investigations into portraiture through the use of original source documents and related material has its roots in the desire to record and capture time while exploring memory in order to establish identities and reveal new perspectives. Even as portraits typically evoke a likeness, filtered through personality or mood, they also form a historical record that tells an incomplete story.Artist Website
I love how the physical format in this artwork parallels the research process. Just as information is brought together from different sources to create new meaning, this collage combines different physical elements resulting in a new vision
Beth Royall
Creative Arts Librarian, WVU
The exploration of the relationship between what is inside of us and what is outside is compelling. Looking into these eyes we can sense the ways we are changed by what we pull from the world. Libraries are that outside, collecting resources to be held in common, how we find out who we are.
Emily Drabinski
President, American Library Association
People are a compilation of many different thoughts, actions and experiences. This collage combines various different materials to form a version of one moment in time. Libraries can be viewed in this way because they are a compilation of many different thoughts and experiences of multiple people and reflect a version of the community during the moment in time they are viewed. Libraries are ever changing.
Tammy Blount
Teen Services Librarian, Erie County Public Library