Bird by Alenna Marie Sandy (2010)

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Description This cabinet card dates, probably, from about 1880-1890 or so. I used a bleaching method on the photo, and made her into a bird spirit, with inks and collage to finish.

Alenna Marie Sandy, Chicago
Member Since May 2011
Artist Statement I am a self taught artist, none of the technical skill learned from house of guided studio instruction, or the art theory concepts to be transplanted to my canvas. I work alone, on my own, learning from books and mistakes. I find things in the world I'd like to use - images and texture that go into my file of media. Wandering around antique shops, I search immediately for old books, and especially photos, stuffed in bins: faces, houses, family reunions, babies, or blurry landscapes.  Where are the owners, the lives, the stories that come from these images that I will never hear or feel?  They become things I confiscate from another time – memories of never-attended parties and beach vacations, of living rooms I never sat in, clothes I never wore.  Married with paint, modern magazines, drawings and stencils, I find stories that I would not bother to tell with words alone. Each piece is a page from a novel or a moment from a strange dream.

I am working in Chicago now, in a studio downtown, but I've lived around - San Francisco, Pittsburgh, North Carolina. Soon, I will be in Austin, where I'm hopeful my weird art will be well received.