The chase. Same reason I love picking. That feeling when you flip over a dusty sculpture or crack open a first edition and realize what you'
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Paintings - but not the "sit in a gallery and be quiet" kind. I'm drawn to stuff with history and texture. Same reason I love picking sculptures, fossils, old books. When I paint, I want it to feel like it's been lived in. Lately I've been working on new pieces nobody's seen yet - mixed media, layered, with a story built into them. I'll use techniques that make a canvas look aged, or l'll pull inspiration from the antiques I find.
Where do you find inspiration?The pieces themselves. Sometimes an antique I pick up won't leave me alone until ! make something about it. A sculpture, a rare book, even just the feeling of a thrift store on a Saturday morning. I don't create in a vacuum. I create because I'm surrounded by things that refuse to be forgotten.
What would you do with $25,000?Buy a home for my daughter and I
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