I want to make a quick footnote here to welcome the artist Mary Bogdan to mixedmedia. Mary has generously agreed to join me and - hopefully! - a growing number of international mixed media artists to catalogue the contemporary field of mixed media arts as well as describe, from time to time, some of our influences, techniques, and what’s on our mind.

So, Welcome Mary! I am eager to have you join us with your first post, and very much look forward to growing and sharing together!

P.S. Look for some great posts from Mary and others from New Zealand, where she will be participating in the 9th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange. Check out what Mary has to say about her work to prepare for the international symposium and her recent work DJ’ing extant works and browse them at Flickr:

I was getting ready for The 9th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange, New Zealand, April 2007. BUT, something crazy happened along the way. I reread the rules, and realized I couldn’t/shouldn’t send any PLANT MATERIAL in/on the collages to New Zealand from Canada…

I’m OUT, I thought. I have several collages with dried leaves, parsley leaves, a hibiscus bloom, twigs, moss, dog hairs, my hairs, pubic hairs… So, I decided I couldn’t break up the set of 13 as they were and so decided to just keep them… and hope for the best… that they’ll be shown eventually together, somewhere. So, here they are, all 13, together.

This has been my process. I was working on these 13 in the last couple of weeks and am now posting the transitions, or should I say transformations, or should I say transmutations, or, dare I say… transcendence.