Obtainium Art - A gallery of assemblage works

"Words Escape Me" ● I love to make assemblage works.  If you follow my work, you know that I often incorporate colla...

"Moon Rabbit" ● The Moon Rabbit in legend, is a rabbit that lives on the moon. Based on pareidolia that identifies mark...

"All That Remains" Several months ago, I came across a vintage printer's tray type case drawer. In its original conditi...

"First Kiss" ● A dear friend from Chicago came to visit last month. She had made special arrangements for us to attend a priva...

"Reflections In Time" ● A new memory mirror finally emerges from the depths of my studio. . . .  This small vintage mirro...

"Memories and Reflections" ●    A couple of months ago, I was invited to work with 5th grade students at Oak Grove Elemen...

"Wonder" A vintage sewing machine drawer covered in green tissues and McCall's pattern tissues houses this assemblage.  In...

"The Edge" (again) ● A few weeks ago I posted a piece with the same quote by Guillaume Apollinaire a poet, playwright, shor...

  "More Alligators" ● This is an analogy, often stated in business, about how unintended consequences can assume greater im...

"Still Searching" ●      Everyday we make choices. Everyday we move forward or we stand still or we move sideways.  How ...

" Altered Alice " ● The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art ( MarinMOCA ) is having their Altered Book Show/Auc...

"Dragon Ace "   I love working with vintage measuring tools. I love the inevitable paint drips and chips they acquire. I love the...

" The Edge " ● " Come to the edge he said.  They said, we are afraid.  Come to the edge he said.  They came.  He...

 " Afternoon Tea " ●    This is my most recent mirror project. Titled " Afternoon Tea " because its petite ...

    "Wonder" ●   We live in Northern California near the Pacific Coast.  When I first moved here from Texas, ...

"The Hand Off"   This is a piece I made a couple of years ago, around the time of the BP oil spill in the Gulf.  I remember feel i...

" Fun and Funky " ● A couple of months ago, I went to visit a dear friend in Seattle, and in one of the trendy downtow...

  "The Details of Life" ● Rock me.  This piece pulls the viewer in to see the details, in doing so, the viewer sees ...