Alease Michelle considers herself a collage architect. She has always been wildly drawn to the process of creating beautiful things from found objects, and sees inspiration all around. Her passion is to breathe new life into bits and pieces of old, worn, and forgotten elements and incorporate them into her work. She enjoys implying the rough outline of a story with the images she chooses and by the bits of ephemera she adds. Alease's love for family history led her to explore photography as another way to share life stories and family experiences. She believes that her combined art forms, put simply, are a celebration of family and life. Family photos call forth pride and the need to celebrate being part of a family. Her passion for family history has allowed her to construct compositions made from fragments of different photos, objects, and letters to tell thier unique stories. Her work further allows the viewer to create thier own stories about thier families and the people who grace thier lives. ...

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Painting and sketching is a long time dream of mine. I am a self taught artist and became serious about it back in the late 80's when i was asked to paint a mural in the preschool media room where i taught. i am grateful to have an art studio in my home..i live to create and as long as there is a paintbrush in my hand, i'm a happy girl!! ...

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As an interdisciplinary artist I investigate music, photography, video performance and specialize in studio arts. Recurrent employed issues consist of religion, abuse, the abject, identity, life and death and ephemerality. Psychoanalytic assessments of reactionary behaviour to such themes are a source of intrigue. Primarily, art is a cathartic measure to facilitate an emotional evolution. As a representational artist, I appropriate the human as a symbol: a common image that all can recognize to eliminate the "elitist idiom" that the observer may undergo since countenance and body can so effortlessly denote and connote various implicit values which structure the hierarchy of assessment for each individual consciousness. I enjoy the traditional and the contemporary dovetailed with one another. My art reflects a placating, artistic delectation that is self-indulgent because I brazenly involve myself with the exotic. Subjectively, my pieces are not imagery; they are equations of my personality. ...

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Art work Mixed media, watercolors, drawings...

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