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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I wish not to be myself; not human, not made of skin, not static and dormant within one mind and body set. My pieces are not imagery; they are equations of my personality. With varying media, I explore divergent areas of my psyche. My works are the manifestations of my history, thoughts and theories. Religiosity, abuse, abjection, identity, stages of life and ephemerality are sectors that preoccupy my mind. All my pieces are forms of portraiture; they emanate from personal experiences and then broaden with others’. When I paint, I wish to express symbolicity, ephemerality, beauty of countenance and ritual. When I perform, I aspire to convey manipulation, controllability and my irritation towards my body. Corporeality in my work transmits experience through the act of spectacle. When I make an installation, I am inclined to compose an alternate reality for myself and the audience to reside within. The fantasy allows for divergent confrontation within the viewer and within the performer. When I capture a moment in a photograph, I enjoy the emphasis on the orchestration that it took to conceive such a “moment”. The products of my subconscious materialize as schizophrenic; they contain emotional blunting, cerebral deteriorization, social isolation and disorganization in that paradoxical subjectivity harmonize simultaneously. I am seduced by invasive spatiality and its dualistic nature. Inversions of public privatizations make me anxious but create such a unique dimensional quality that whether my space is invaded or I am invading someone else’s, I am unreservedly fascinated....

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Art work Mixed media, watercolors, drawings...

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