Incongruous Juxtapositions

My art work is very much related to the fact that I collect things: vintage postcards, anonymous photos of the 19th and 20th centuries, tintypes, mug shots, puppets, old illustrated books, ephemera of all kinds. Many of my pictures involve found and/or altered photographs, as well as digital collage. I've always had a great fondness for the surrealists and the Exquisite Cadavers tradition, and take enormous pleasure in composing images in which incongruous juxtapositions create (especially) comic and paradoxical effects involving the human face or human body.