Alaska

No, I have never been to Alaska but I know it is a beautiful state. I have been collecting items from different states for my mountain biking series but as I am pretty sure I will never be biking there I'm using the items for my color series.

 
 While starting the blue piece I came across the Alaska bag of goodies I had gathered over the years  and added that to the blue items I had been collecting. I tried the silver frame but it just didn't seem good. Too fancy.

I found this wooden tray and that was it, the collection found it's place. 

Alaska
7" x 15"
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Popcorn, a Movie tin and a map

The parts come together. A movie tin from an old 8mm movie reel,  plastic popcorn on a string found at a church rummage sale, a map, a scrapbook page of movie stuff, and barbie and doll house miniatures that I repurposed with paint and collage. 

On top of it all is a layer of 2 part resin. I was working on this piece during open studios  earlier this month and several visitors told me I should sell it to the local art house movie theatre. I don't know the owner and I am not going to do that but it did give me the idea to enter it in a local show of Boise Art and I named it "The Flicks" (the name of the previous mentioned theatre)