When the Marriage of Images & Words Produces a Baby

Living into the marriage of images and words is one of the great joys of my artistic life. There's so much freedom in knowing that I can write not only with words but with colors, photographs, drawings, and objects affixed to the page. There are days when a simple stroke of turquoise paint across a stark white page says it all; when crumbled dried leaves glued below a sentence complete the thought; when illustrations insist on being commas, semicolons, ellipses, and exclamation marks. I especially love those moments when my words and images begin to make exquisite love on the page and something weird, wild and wonderful is born, like a song.