PJ: Has Division grown on you with time, how is it different looking at it now?

Brandi: It has grown on me. I created ‘Division’ about a year ago for my senior show. I thought this was one of my strongest pieces. My math teacher ended up buying it. Division-haha. I haven’t seen it in person in about a year. Knowing a piece isn’t mine anymore always changes my experience of it. And not seeing this or even really thinking of it at all for so long makes me see it with fresh eyes. I think I always understand my work more with time. At first creation I wonder, ‘where’d that come from, what’s that about?’

PJ: Can you describe one part of it you really enjoy, or dislike?

Brandi: The architectural sketches in blue pen are my grandfathers–on an envelope from the 60’s. This piece was built around and inspired by his drawing-very sentimental. A collaboration across time and space, neat-o.

more art by Brandi Strickland

PJ: How do you decide where to go with your art or music?

Bruce: Pete, I work and work and work. I have a system, called the neo context system, where one medium influences my response time to help me act faster in another. Basically my arts cheat off of each other and are jealous of each other, but won’t admit it.

PJ: Why are you doing collage now?

Bruce: I am the best of Bruce when I do collage, and when you see it you’ll know why. All decisions, no wasted time. Scissors, glue, exacto, and like a computer it is all yes’s and no’s. 1’s and 0’s. Elecctric!!!!!

more collage by Bruce Sherfield

PJ: We have curious clues on the table before us, but I’m more adrift in her daydream, which eludes me like a mirage.

LM: This work is designed to tell a story but not the whole story. It all depends upon the viewer’s experiences. A viewer might look at the work and see the predecessor of a significant event or maybe the aftermath. Either way, the viewer is the voyeur of a private moment and is entranced by this individual stealing long glances across a crowded restaurant.

This is the story of a girl who is waiting for someone special. She is full of love and hope. She has been hurt by something yet hangs in there - waiting. She looks to the distance with hope, as if seeing a glimpse of the future while she gingerly twirls a necklace between her fingers which represents a part of her past.

more art by Larissa Meek