My eyes like cameras my whole life - I absorb visually. I live and communicate visually. Editing personal sketchbooks and scrapbooks - looking for style and imagery both seen and imagined within those pages, every jotted note, every image clipped, every sketch and thought recorded represents a moment in time.
I created sketchbooks and scrapbooks during the 80s - because, as an art student, I felt inspired daily by:
- my own perception of style and fashion
- color, line, shape... and the way images conveyed feeling
- music, beat, rhythm, movement
In reviewing my paper archives, I see how artforms of a specific time:
- accurately represent a collective mindset
- interweave - and creativity is cross-referenced
- are - in a sense - prophetic of our lives in the future
