I’m always scanning the ground when I walk the dog or walk through town.  I pick up interesting objects and collect them in old coffee tins. Every once in a while I’ll go through them and put them out onto a canvas in a collage:

These are little 1:12 scale baby dolls. They weren’t all found on the ground, mostly found in different thrift stores. They still look cool all together…and maybe a little creepy:

Try it one day. I love how carefully scanning my surroundings makes me slow down, become more aware.  New objects are now like treasures when before they were just trash (if I’d even managed to notice them).

You can find more of my collages here. 

Re-discovered objects that were either lost, discarded or just scattered by nature herself, a few things I’ve found while walking around. These were all found on my birthday a few weeks ago…a very eclectic group. I think there’s meaning in all of it, like maybe I’m up for a very adventurous year, my last year in my thirties!

These are found this last week. The red Porsche toy I found buried at the edge of our yard. It had been there for a long time:

Funny because when I told Brett about it he said,  “Oh, I found that last week when I was cleaning up the edge of the property. I left it for you to find.” And that’s how I know I found my soul mate…he knew how excited I’d be to find it.

More found object collages can be found here.