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Crows are my everyday wondrous companions as I travel around the city. I love what I have read on studies of their language and tool use abilities, their coordination with each other, their ability to recognize individual humans over time, their incredible intelligence. They are potent symbols and incarnations of mythologies. They are complex icons of adaptability, intelligence, and mystery.

Animating my art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the equal reality of death entwine. The mix of collage and oil paint is a way for me to assemble an idea out of disparate parts, partly expressed through its process. Collage is a process of collision and re-creation. I appreciate rough, cut edges, the feel of different papers, the build-up of oil paint strokes and ridges. Photos in our media and daily life are an integral part of how we communicate information, ideas, and emotions. Incorporated into...