Photos by Julie Forbes.

I’m a city girl. Been that way tooth and claw since I moved from down South the summer I got sprung from college with a design degree. Moved to hard-scrabble Brooklyn decades before it devolved to the tre-chic, gag-me Brooklyn of today. Back when the trains were still tagged and getting home was fraught after midnight. Then moved all over New York as I kept getting tossed for paying my rent but lacking the scratch to buy my crib when it went condo – time after time after woe-is-me time.

Many years flew by immersed in several creative fields. Learning as I earned, I started in graphics (using my design degree from North Carolina State University), then charged into fashion design, textile art, photo styling and theatrical design. Classes at Parson School of Design filled in the gaps. Newborn Prints that I conjured flew off the shelves. Fine, fun times, but a thirst for more still nagged.

Enough of that and so to Portland pushing now fifteen years ago, husband, and twin boys in tow. And fell in love, I did, with my new hometown (and learned quick to stop saying I was from New York).

During my daily perambulations over the years, I encountered various species of others’ leavings – trash mostly. It failed to speak to me until a broken boom box destined for a methane-spewing landfill leapt upon my imagination. It became my first in a series of 3-D wall pieces, Electronic Viscera. Street pickings became art and thus took a slice off that moldering mountain of junk.

My art has been created in stolen moments. What some saw as trash, I call a fine collection of Obsolete. Torn-down, built-up redemption for future lost artifacts. I've recycled the crystalline beating heart of the Machine that grounds our day. Tweaked it, twitched it, repurposed it anew. Sculpture, Wall Art and now neo-futuristic jewelry to catch your eye. You find yourself bending closer to ponder their construction, their significance, the architecture of their allure. That’s when I got you!

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