It's all about being able to play as an adult and what it truly is, but then never really
being, remember being interested as a kid in art at all, I don't remember ever doing
this kind of stuff.
I was only as an adult that, you know, I met somebody else along the way several years
ago that thought this was fun and once I started doing it, I thought, yeah, this is fun.
This is great stuff.
Now, can you imagine some people do this full time for a living?
Okay, so here we got the country of Australia on this lady's head.
This is kind of a good Friday, for either Friday or Saturday morning activity.
This neighborhood particularly has great, good, good garage sales and I usually find,
you have to go to about 10 different sales, maybe 10 garage sales in order to find one
good thing that maybe I could use in one of my projects.
Yeah, great, great.
You know, I very seldom ever find this kind of thing.
As usual, I start with my box, I mean, this is the footwork for everything that I'm doing
and once I get the box ready and constructed in my background, then I can begin the process
of my cutouts.
I don't know who these people are, but great, great expressions.
Sometimes I cut off the ears, sometimes not.
I've never had a good pair of lungs like this.
I do a lot of stuff with heads, I truly hate to do this, trim off a piece of that.
Okay, I really like this, this is perfect.
Yeah, my bottom canvas is virtually finished, I hit a problem, no, not virtually finished
because I have another idea, maybe I don't have another idea.
I feel like my job is all about exaggeration and lots of exaggeration.
I would not be a good minimalist kind of artist because I just can't operate that way.
It's just, I guess exaggeration just demands something being overdone, at least it does
for me.
So I actually have to reach a point where I say, okay, enough is enough is enough because
some of my pieces, there's been some that are just overkill, they're just like a fireworks
explosion 10 times over as far as I'm concerned.
When I first started doing this, I didn't sell a thing, didn't give anything away, didn't
sell a thing.
I kept it, I liked it, I really liked my stuff, so it was kind of an awakening, that first
time that I set up on Alberta Street and had my table out there, I'm going to lose some
of this stuff, I'm never going to have it again.
Then I realized once people bought it and once I realized it was going up on people's
walls and they were going to be looking at it and kind of celebrating this little piece
like I did, then it took on a different kind of a different dimension, kind of a different
picture, so.
