out with the old...

So, in some past posts I have shared that I no longer find some of the things I treasured the most...desired any longer.  I spoke of getting rid of some things and sending them to the consignment shop I go to...sending more to Goodwill and thrift shops.  This continues, even more so now...I try to understand this change and I am a bit baffled by it.  So I quit trying to understand it.
My mixed media art began with vintage photographs, always!  There was an image in every piece.  Then as artists, we change a bit and sometimes a photo wasn't always necessary. But I stayed in that mode for about 3 years, by the way, I still enjoy that too.  But as you have seen a new direction has enveloped me.

 Here are a few, just a few...a sampling of what I am selling.  I thought I would always love these photos, and want them around me.  But something has changed, and I know longer want them around me.  Do they represent the past?  Not MY past of course, I don't know these people...but somehow I wonder if my desire to move forward and make some changes to my "self" has prompted me to let someone else love them now.  hmmm, don't know.
The ones that still speak to me are packed up and I will keep them, for now.  I have scanned mostly all of them, if I need them for an art piece I will have them... for now it is just stuff to me.  Things I no longer want to hold on to.
I have been working hard the last few days in my vintage shop, Remember Yesterday.  I am offering sets of 4 mostly, groupings...and for a very good price as well.  I know there are still many collectors out there, and hopefully someone will love them again.
change...is a good thing!

PLAYING WITH TINTYPES

I really love to use these tintypes in my art; somehow they just feel so sweet.  Today, with the gadget's we have, taking a picture is so irrelevant.  But back in the day, you may only have one or two photographs of yourself, let alone your family.  They are just so unique and "worth" seeing and touching...Such solemn faces, and sometimes blurs from the long wait of the camera...just find it so interesting.  Anyway, here are a couple new pieces, using these photographs.