'Cloud Watching' Mixed Media Original

This piece is a great example of the kind of work I have been loving to create recently-- It's kind of like collage for me, but I think it also is similar to decoden. It's a very sensory experience of squishing different trinkets and bits and bobbles into a mixture of glues, acrylics, and spackle. This type of work gives me a similar feeling to a classic from my childhood, the 'I-SPY' books by artist Walter Wick. In that fashion, I have been finding things in miscellaneous boxes in my basement from my childhood, and much of this style of work has been very nostalgia driven for me.

This piece, along with a piece titled 'I-SPY', in an acknowledgement to Walter Wick's inspiring work, were both displayed in Hatch Art House's EcoSquared art show-- a juried exhibition of small square works with upcycled materials by local Madison, Wisconsin artists.

Materials:
Sea glass and ceramic fragments found by me, Shells collected and gifted to me, an amber glass jar filled with found small mammal teeth, a coyote claw I found in Wyoming, miscellaneous glass and metal charms and beads, canvas, and a mixture of spackle, acrylics, and glues.