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My creative process relies a lot on association. Today, as I grabbed a pile of words and lay them out on the table, the word View caught my eye. I have been contemplating life and death since my mother died in January, so what I saw was the word Vie (French for Life) with an extraneous w. I think that one of the most significant things a person can do is to learn a foreign language. In that way you also absorb another culture, another way of thinking, and an additional way


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According to Wikipedia, the Rorschach test is “a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation…” It goes on to say that “Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.” Many of my collages are like Rorschach tests. I create them, put them aside for a few days, then try to interpret them. In this particular collage, I created the bac