Chinese Stamps was fashioned from a set of exquisite rubber and wood block stamps which I picked up at an antique store which specializes in Chinese antiques on a recent trip to Richmond. I mounted the block on a piece of handmade paper printed with Chinese characters, and a salvaged picture frame. 9" x 11" SOLD

Chinese Box is made from a heavy piece of wood debris-I don't know what this once was. I added to it the painted Chinese box which I picked up on a recent trip to Richmond, VA, and inside the boc I glued some handmade paper and a salvaged Chinese coin-a little bit of hidden lagniappe. 12" x 12" SOLD

High Priestess II is composed aound a carved African mask, a fabric doll's gown, mardi gras and other beads, several pieces of costume jewelry, a framed dried flower arrangement, and a ceiling tin. SOLD

Three Crosses is composed of two plaster crosses, a rusty metal cross, and a charger. SOLD

Milagro Mirror begins with a punched tin piece from Mexico. It is adorned with a metal platter and mirror tiles, and is mounted on a piece of wood. SOLD

Mermaid II is composed of a metal figure, a platter, mirror tiles from a disco ball, a fragment of a chair, and an oval piece of wood. SOLD

Fossil I features a fossilized ammonite mounted on several pieces of handmade paper, a grass mat and an old linoleum tile. SOLD

Mermaid I consists of a tin figure, fragment of a chair, mirror tiles, a metal disk, and a piece of wood covered with cork. SOLD

Luck, Fate, Chance is about that age old question of theodicy, or why bad things happen to good people. The piece is composed of a hand that used to belong to a mannequin adorned with a rusty nail, two doll arms, a Chinese "good luck" hat, and several pieces of salvaged wood. SOLD

Fossil II begins with a fossilized amonite mounted on several sheets of handmade paper. These elements of the piece survived the storm in an art gallery in old town Bay St. Louis. The fragment of the grass mat and the flooring tile came from rubbish piles. SOLD

Travels II is a simply constructed piece which features a broken plaster figurine and a metal platter mounted on a decorative board. SOLD

High Priestess is an intriguing piece that consists of painted muslin, a decorative wooden furniture fragment, mirror tiles from a disco ball, an acrylic crystal, a metal piece adorned with a glass ruby, other costume jewelry, silk leaves and a ribbon, a cabinet door and a portion of a picture frame. 29" x 28" SOLD

The Least Angel is a sweet little piece which is composed around a tiny, miniature portarit of an angel in a frame. It is surrounded by a lovely piece of chipped fused glass, a rusted siler plate, plaster wings, a piece of filligre, and a broken aluminum paltter which is inlaid with shells. SOLD

Serenity II is composed from a painted and rusted metal piece, an African mask, a fragment of a rake, and a piece of moulding. SOLD

Cruciform I features the image of the tree in Waveland that has caught the attention of so many people. It is mounted on some salvaged handmade paper, a piece of battered plywood, and a wood nacking board. SOLD

Egyptian Eye incorporates ceramic tiles, rusted tin, a wood tile, vinyl record, and a fragment of a picture frame. SOLD

Mask V was made from a brass African mask, an old wood ski given me by Bay st Louis artists Dwight Issacs, a scrap piece of wood, and beads of glass, metal, and polymer clay, as well as thimbles, coins, and assorted other treasures. 14" x 50" SOLD

Frieda's Dance is composed from a piece of embossed metal, a Mexican tin and glass cross, a wonderful old doll who has lost her hair, and a damaged wood angel, also Mexican in origin. 20" x 26" SOLD

Soul is composed from several pieces of rusted metal, ceramic tile, plaster bust, twine and ploymer clay. SOLD

Mimosa at Buccaneer incorporates a small acrylic painting on wood, a drawer front and several pieces of salvaged wood. SOLD

Low Tide incorporates a small acrylic painting, and three different scraps of wood from various debris piles. 24" x 24" SOLD

Buccaneer Mimosa incorporates a drawer from a jewelry chest, a fragment of another drawer, and an acrylic painting on plywood. 15" x 12" SOLD

Blue Bayou incorporates a battered section of wall panel, two fragments of furniture, and a small acrylic painting on plywood. 17" x 16" SOLD

Bayou Trees starts with a small painting on plywood of the trees that grew on the edge of our bayou.I mounted the painting on an old metal iron stand and a painted and decoupaged wood plaque, and added a brass strip from a piece of fine furniture. 11" x 15" SOLD 7/08

Beast of Burden begins with the fragments of a Mexican tile. I mounted them upon a metal stove grill, a damaged painting of mine, and a wood tray with slats. 24" x 18" SOLD

Aias begins with the small ceramic painting from Greece. I mounted it on a metal disc and added the curved metal element, and adhered them to the piece of wood which was once part of a dresser drawer. The support for the piece is a wooden tray. SOLD

Lift Us Up started with an old ironing board which I had for months, and almost cut up several times before I found the perfect pieces to compliment it. Those pieces, I recently learned, are from a York forklift-if you look, you can see the word "York" spelled out in the metal (thanks, Vicki!) The remainder of the piece incorporates a wonderful chunk of concrete which I found on a foray with my dear friend Pat Saik, as well as a corroded aluminum platter and several other pieces of metal. SOLD

Katrina Angel is centered around the last carved wood angel which I salvaged from the rubble outside of an antique store on the beach in Bay St. Louis. The angel is right at home on a painted and goldleafed plaque and a charger plate from the same shop. 13" x 13" SOLD

Rocking Horse is about the loss of dreams. For me, that means the loss of my dream of living on the water. The piece is composed of a carved wood horse, a crushed metal basket, a wooden tile and a piece of painted plywood. 17" x 17" SOLD

Hand is about life here on the coast. I can't count the times that I made a trek to the beach to wade through the tidal pools, looking for living treasures like the shell which is cradled in this plaster hand. The rest of the piece consists of a crushed piece of tin, a grate from an oven, and a wooden tile. 17" x 17" SOLD

Fairey (the spelling is for you two, Chelsea and Alec) began with a naked mardi gras doll and a pair of wings which formerly graced a metal grasshopper. The fairey is mounted on a beautiful piece of copper to which is attached a piece of moulding. 20" x 14" SOLD

Guadalupe is close to my heart due to my affection for the Hispanic culture, which I first became acquainted with during my years in Arizona. The central image of the virgin is actually the front side of a phone card which I picked up off the street- I assume it was discarded by one of the many workers from Mexico and Central America who have come to help us. It is mounted on a matted print of some shrimp, and adorned with a metal wheel. A ceiling tin is underneath, resting on a placemat of desert wood. The whole compostition is supported bu a painted wooden cabinet door. 24" x 18" SOLD

Sea Turtle began its life as a platter which belonged to Waveland artist Anita Gallagher. I took two pieces of the broken pot and mounted them on a beautifully patined piece of copper. The horizontal support is provided by a furniture fragment which is augmented by several more small pieces of the pot. 19" x 14" SOLD

New Life is what we are seeing now in coastal Mississippi. For the first time since the storm, green things are coming out of the soil-it is such a relief to see somthing growing. This piece features a pottery fragment, a smashed silver platter, another smashed platter, this time of brass, three pieces of woven placemats, and a metal leaf. 14" x 14" SOLD

Tao I
starts with a piece of bone carved with a tale of one of the eight ways of the tao. It is married with two pieces of broken glass and mounted on a brass bowl. The support consists of a bamboo placemat and a wicker panel. 22" x 15" SOLD

Portal Angel starts with a drawer from what must have been a magnificent bureau. I added a plaster bust, rusted metal wings, and a fragment of a picture frame for horizontal support. 25" x 21" SOLD

Patina is one of my new favorites. I don't do that many abstract pieces, but these elements were perfect for an abstract work. it is put together from a piece of sheet copper, a copper framed "window" of some sort, two pieces of rusted metal, a piece of reinforced glass, and two shards of mirror glass. 26" x 26" SOLD

Blue Leaf Angel is a sweet little piece that is composed of a ceramic angel, a cast iron leaf, a heating grate, some plaster wings and a picture frame fragment. 17" x 15" SOLD

Katrina Lament (or "I Just Don't Know Where My Head Is These Days") is a whimsical piece which I enjoyed putting together. It is fashioned from a plaster figure, ceramic boots, head and angels, various furniture elements, a glass bead neckpiece, wooden tile and ceramic bathroom tiles. 16" x 25" SOLD

Japanese Dancer incorporates a cast metal figure from Japan, a bamboo platter from Vietnam, a hot plate, a wooden tile and the lid to a metal container. 16" x 16" SOLD

The Actor is comprised of a carved wooden figure, a broken piece of bisque fired clay, a plastic frame, a door to a piece of 1800s English furniture, and a rusted piece of painted metal. 23" x 21" SOLD

Good Dog, Bad Dog is from the Familiars series of the collection. Many cherished pets were lost in the storm, and their presence in our lives is sorely missed. This piece is joyfully composed of a decorative metal rack featuring two dogs and a fire hydrant, a third metal dog, bottle caps and several rusted pieces of metal. 18" x 18" SOLD

Year of Calamity is comprised of a ceramic cherub, a broken ceramic wing, two pieces of wood, a page from a book, a fan blade, a speaker cover and a piece of painted plywood. 26" x 22" SOLD

Benediction is put together from a wooden figure, an iron plate, leaded glass panes, a silver plated serving platter, and a fragment of fine furniture. SOLD

Gardening Angel is a fun piece that was inspired by the strange looking figure of the woman.
She is mounted on a piece of decorative metal and flanked by two songbirds. They all rest in a painted metal tray to which metal wings on a wooden support have been attached. SOLD

Electric Angel is composed from a decorative wood platter. a book cover, a polymer face, and a smashed light fixture. 12" diameter. SOLD

All Those Cars is about the very vivid mental image I have of the thousands of cars which littered the coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Nearly everyone I knew lost their car in the storm surge; upon returning to my town two days after Katrina, I found out how lucky I was to still have a car. As it turned out, that was all I had. This piece was created around the rusty model car-I do not know if it is a Model A or Model T or what, exactly. It is resting upon a battered copper bowl nestled in two drawers with a piece of shattered mirror in the background. SOLD

American Bandstand SOLD

Red Door SOLD

Turquoise Cross 9. This series of small collages was created on a day that I forgot to bring my laptop with me to work. I purchased the small turquoise crosses from my friends Sid and Pam Yoder, who are jewelers in our co-op gallery in Bay St Louis, ran up to the dollar store and bought small acrylic frames with stands, and gathered together bits of salvaged paper. They are all 4" x 5". SOLD