Hardware Study 1

TIn this hectic world it is easy to overlook things around you. I choose to take an approach of viewing the objects so often overlooked, so often thrown away, and very often lost in the "big picture". While someone might look at a beautiful flowing river, my eye continuously looks at the small little eddy swirling along the shore; while on vacation my husband marveled at the skyscrapers in Chicago, I was bent over enjoying the cracks in the sidewalk, or a rope tied onto a scaffolding. My sculptural work began as I would always bring home rocks, sticks and pieces of rusty metal from walks with my dogs. Soon you could find any bowl or flat surface with a display of these finds, or as my son Roy said when he was little "beautiful rocks". And without a lot of planning or thought (which makes me ever so crazy) sculptural pieces involving papier-mâché, basketry techniques, found items, fabric, painting and so much more find themselves combined into sculptural entities.