I’m supposed to be working on collage/paintings this month, but last night when I was sifting through my boxes of collage materials I kept seeing things that I wanted to use for jewelry instead.

I remembered the semester I spent in Rome during art school. I was a painting major but ended up spending most of my time working on collage books.  I had a conversation with a painting grad student one day, who was very surprised when I said I was a painting major. He said he always thought I was a jewelry person because I was so fashionable. Which I thought was funny since that’s the last thing I am, but I guess he meant that I didn’t wear baggy paint-covered pants or something. And maybe he was right, maybe I am a jewelry person after all. This is very interesting…an artistic identity crisis? I’m thinking of ways to combine collage/digital collage and jewelry…I still want to finish these damn paintings though. Even though I’m really thinking I might be kind of really over making paintings…