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January 2025 Artist Exhibition

Welcome to my art wall!

I am the artist behind the collages below and the founder of One Piece at a Time.

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This journey began with a simple desire: to create unique paper collages for the people I love and has since bloomed into a wonderful obsession. I spend my days cutting, sorting, arranging, and pasting paper in my attic-turned-art studio, bringing shapes to life in meaningful ways.

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I am guided by these principles:

• Color, color, color. The more vibrant they better. Noone has ever used the words Jodi and beige in the same sentence, and I am ok with that. While I like to truly “mix it up”, I often work with monochromatic schemes, finding beauty in subtle variations, textures and contrasts.

• It’s Good to Color Outside the Lines. Each piece of paper is hand-cut and intuitively placed, so not everything is straight, crisp, or perfectly aligned. Life and art are full of unexpected twists, and these collages reflect the beauty of embracing that imperfection.

• No Paper is Off Limits. I source handmade or hand painted paper from all over the world. Like the art I create the paper has its own story. I use is a rich mix of material such as newspaper, tree bark, banana leaves, cardboard, magazines, amusement park tickets, candy wrappers, and more.

• Shower someone with surprise and delight. The true power of art lies in its unmatched ability to spark joy and bring happiness. My goal as an artist is to have you walk away from my collages feeling  a bit of whimsy and a skip in your step.