red is the word

I needed to balance out the other side.

blue

I wanted to paint again, so I played with different shades of blue.

caged monkey

I was feeling like a caged monkey.

I know...

We took a magazine and altered the pages with some cleaning product. We left it alone for a couple of hours and then we found all the colors had swirled together. Then I stamped out a saying that I found, one word on each page.

the odd man out!

I took some of my old flower photos and put them through the paper schedder. I took a lot of the green ones and then one red piece. I use to always feel like I was the odd one in any group.

yellow stripe

Wanted some more color on the side of the piece so I decided some yellow would do the trick.

Birthday!!!

I thought I would celebrate my birthday with some bright colors!

flowers...

I love flowers so I needed to add a few of them to my piece. I took two of my photos and cut one of them out and made the other one into a vase.

wish tag

I added another wish tag.

little notes...

I wanted a place I could hang little notes off of.

FREAK!!!!

I took my 7th grade school picture and altered it and titled it "FREAK". I felt like a freak in jr. high, I didn't fit in with the girls and I didn't fit in with the boys. It seemed like everyone knew I was gay and they decided that I was going to be the out cast in my class. So I spent a lot of time by myself, didn't go out to recess very much either.

my true love

I found a quote in a book I was reading about true love. Then I took the "love" page out of a dictionary for the background.

a girl and a gun!

I have all these pictures of me in a dress and a toy gun in my hand. I hated wearing dresses but until I was old enough to dress myself, I had to wear what my mom wanted. We never agreed of course, she wanted me to be a cute little girl and I wanted to be a tom-boy who wear pants all the time.

This use to be my wall paper growing up in my room. It use to drive me crazy sometimes. But there I am in a white dress and a transformer gun in my hand. I loved that toy and I still have all my transformers, but I don't have the dress, THANK GOD!

falling apart

I felt like I was falling apart this day, so I took a playing card and cut it apart. Then I tried to put it together, it felt like I was tring to put myself together. Thank God we can play out our emtions through art!

rainbow tears

I decide I was going to play with crayons, so I melted some drops to look like rainbow tears!

education letter...

I wrote a letter about how I have stuggled through my education here in the states. I aged the letter and then I covered it with wax.

Dusty and Me

My cat Dusty has been with me since 1994 and he is a part of my family. He acts like he is part dog, part cat, part human.

painting...

I felt like painting on this day so I took some pinkish red and some purple and just started to paint.

take two of these and call me in the morning!

I took a old medicine bottle and made a label for it. Inside I rolled little pieces of paper that listed things that made me mad about my family. Things I don't like that they have done, things that they have said and how they treat me. If the symptoms persist take two more pills!

deck of cards

I took a deck of cards and taped them together. Then I took some of my poetry and I glued them to the back of the cards. Most of the poetry is from 1997 to 1999 and they reflect the struggle of self acceptance.