God's Gift
"God's Gift" is a physical mixed-media piece. It's dimensions IRL are 14in x 18in.
The lady pictured is named "Ms. D". I met her outside of her monthly doctors appoinments and it was one of the most spiritual encouters I've ever had in my life.
I combined a digital photo of her from my ongoing "Strangers" series, found the frame at an estate sale, printed the image out on printer paper, wheat-pasted it, and then drew on the image with oil pastels.
I then photographed it professionally in my home studio for it to live digitally in your wallet!
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About 4 months ago, I started walking up to strangers on the street and asking the simple question, "Excuse me, can I take your portrait?"
Since then I have interviewed and published 100's of stories of complete strangers.
Somewhere along the way I wanted to see these photos come to life, so I printed them out on my home printer, made wheat paste, and glued them to recyled canvas and began drawing.
This resulted in my first-ever body of work I'm entitling "Mixed Media".
It's over 100 days of stories, 13 years of photography, and hundreds of drawings later that I have compiled some of my favorite pieces of people I met on the streets with no prior relationship.
This is "Mixed Media"!