I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina a long time ago.

In 1975, during a tumultuous political time, I decided to leave.  As far as I could go.  The opposite side of the planet seemed a good option.  Lived in the Uk and now the US.

 

At the age of eight, I entered my first painting competition, at a local park.  I was not happy with my painting, the tree was challenging and the bench had the wrong perspective, it could be better, I thought.  My father, an architect, had taught me all about perspective at an early age.

 

I was surprised when my name was called as the first prize winner.  I was congratulated and given a small trophy.

I continued to think that I could do better most of my life .

 

Over the years I studied and explored all art mediums; drawing, painting, sculpture, printing.  Every medium had its own excitement, challenges and interest.  The medium I never considered was collage.

 

When I moved to Smithville in 2015, it was then that I decided to recycle most of my art books into new art pieces.  Finding the right color, a texture, an image, a symbol, became one of the most enjoyable ways of creating.  A way to incorporate a narrative and to explore new possibilities for expressing an idea or an emotion.  To honor and extract colors and passages created by other artists, co-creators of sorts.

A new whole born from small pieces of printed paper, images from long and recent past combined.

I found the process magical.