Live Your Life

When I was a little girl and someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I don't think i said, "I want to be an artist". At college, I imagined I would be a curator for an art museum. I enrolled in every art history course that was offered. I was able to recite dates and movements effortlessly (this knowledge long since lost). Later in my long on again-off again affair with higher education I imagined myself to someday be an adventure travel writer. Now years later, my art heroes are the undiscovered ones and my travel writing has become travel reading from my bathtub. I chose instead to shelf my imagination for a paycheck. i would still to this day be on the corporate highway had it not been for my son, Chris.

Several years ago, I started making collage cards and sending them to family and friends on New Years. Chris thought that these should not be only for family and friends but that they should be shared with others outside our small world. When he was 14, he sold his electric guitar and gave me the money for the first printing. In 2001, we started Local Wisdom, this small card company of my collage art. I

It's a Girl Thing

I may not have wanted to be an artist when I was little but life has a way of coming full circle. The materials I use I used in kindergarten. The paste advises me not to eat it and the scissors are not rounded anymore but I still probably should not run with them. I have abandoned the safe career path, to live the second half of my life in the hopeful unknown.

Or maybe it is just that I like to go to work in my pajamas.

Kathleen A. Sawyer