Deborah Hayner studied design, fine art, and illustration predominately at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She considers herself an experimental artist working in multiple disciplines including assemblage, digital, collage, mixed media on paper, wood or any surface applicable to transformation. She works largely with found objects and discarded or vintage remnants. Her current mixed media 2D series entitled, ?Street Aphorism?s? is a combination of collaged and painted found papers parking stubs, and bus transfers. Her style had been describes as Vintage Modernism.
STATEMENT
Trance/trashformation As human beings, we have to continue working regardless of external factors. It is us who interprets and reacts to these events, forming our destiny. I have learned that I can be creative with and respectful of those limitations. What?s exciting to me is to know that magic really does exist, there isn?t always cardboard behind Santa?s beard. Sometimes Santa?s beard is real. In creating art I see magic evolving out of nothingness. In found object assemblage I see junk transformed into something meaningful. My intention is to transform my life into something meaningful, while at the same time doing something