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About Me:

I've been a dork for paper for as long as I can remember. I can't tell you how many portfolios of paper I have...well, actually, I can since they're right next to me, but I digress.

I started off doing fine art collages in college, always playing around with a mix of found images and objects, advertising cut-outs and text. I never really could wrap my brain around large-scale projects and opted to create small vignettes that (I hoped) had a Joseph Cornell vibe to them. Small seemed intimate, personal.

I take the same care with my cards, invitations and other paper crafts. I like to think of them as tiny works of art. I LOVE paper! I see ideas in those sheets but I'm not gonna lie, not everything I make is a hug from Jesus. You won't see any of my design step-children here; only the best for you peeps!

I'm a total and complete art nerd: modern and contemporary art/photography and mid-century architecture/furnishings. The weirdest thing about me is the way I eat ice cream from the carton - it's gotta be scraped in a level, flat pattern or all is no bueno in this house! Currently in school for my Masters and loving life with my fiance, the company of good friends and making cool stuff.

Gender:

Gal

I am a/an:

Independent Artist/Designer, Shopper

(Designers only) I create:

...Handmade custom invitations, cards and papercrafts with modern, clean lines, obsessive details and a sense of humor. Each of my pieces are like kids to me; I constantly fuss over them until they leave my nest and go out and get all drunk and whatnot. Hey, I created them but they're all yours now!

(Designers only) I am willing to do:

Custom orders, Consignment, Wholesaling

(Designers only) My work is sold at:

www.LandMdesignworks.etsy.com

Website:

http://www.LandMdesignworks.etsy.com

Favorite Designers/Artists:

CIndy Sherman; Annette Messager; Joseph Cornel; Richard Neutra; Jeff Wall; Gregory Crewdson; Jacques Louis David; Barbara Kruger; Jenny Saville; Tracey Emin; Anselm Kiefer; the Gruenwald Christ - Want to see it before I die!; Eugene Atget; Francesca Woodman; Chris Burden; John Baldessari; the Kienholz's; Christian Boltanski; Amadeo Modigliani; ... Too many to keep listing! Basically, twentieth-century art, photography, design, architecture and culture with an ephasis on mid-century and late twentieth-century artists.

Favorite Music/Musicians:

I'm a bit of a music freak so just a few faves: Sigur Ros; Elvis Costello; early Blues; early to mid-century Jazz; Johnny Cash; Billie Holiday; Tom Waits; Air; David Bowie; 60s French pop; alt-Country and Bluegrass; Beck; Vivaldi's "Winter;" Beethoven; Debussy; and Top 40 pop that makes me wanna dance!

Favorite TV Show & Movies:

Current fave TV: the Office; Mad Men; House; Fringe; Grey's Anatomy; 30 Rock; Burn Notice; Jeopardy!; Ghost Hunters; anything with mummies in it; random documentaries about the history of banal subjects like "plastic;" the Food Network; Scrubs; MSNBC; BBC; the Daily Show; the Rachel Maddow Show.

Movies: A smattering of favorites and directors - Donnie Darko; Small Change; the Coen Bros.; Trois Colours; Wes Anderson; Kevin Smith; Eternal Sunshine...; Amadeus; Immortal Beloved; L.A. Story; Robert Altman; and those funny peeps that Judd Apatow always plays with...

Favorite Books / Authors:

David Sedaris (You can't kill the rooster!); ee cummings; Georges Bataille; Sarah Vowell and basically all of the This American life kids; Julia Kristeva; T.S. Elliot; Douglas Coupland; Jean Baudrillard; Walter Benjamin; Aimee Bender; Leonard Cohen; Allen Ginsberg; Michel Foucault; Paul Auster; Robert Smithson; art historical theory and criticsm; short fiction; essays; biographies; memoir; modern history and sociology.