COLLAGE ARTIST
How Laurie Kanyer Became a Collage Artist
“It was April 2016. My niece had gone into labour with her first child. She lived in Texas, I was in Washington. There wasn’t much I could do. Under different circumstances, given my background serving pregnant and parenting mothers, it would have been natural for me to have a role,” writes Laurie Kayner in Kolaj #18. From Washington state, Kayner, an artist and retired mental health professional, tells the story of how a need to work through her feelings in that moment led her to collage.
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Collage would use the small muscles of my hands to pace the hormones streaming through my body. As time was suspend in waiting, I had an activity to anchor myself. Finally, I knew the images from the various media would have a stronger visual punch than my other media.
For thirty-one years, Laurie Kanyer worked as an Infant Mental Health professional, Certified Family Life Educator and Children’s Grief Specialist. She earned her Master’s in Human Development from St. Mary’s University in Minnesota. She is the author of 25 Things To Do When Grandpa Passes Away, Braided Memories, and The Journey of Becoming a Mother. In 2015, she received the Washington State Museum Association Award of Individual of Excellence as the Director of the Yakima Light Project Gallery.
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Images:
(top)
This is Virginia Bruce, look her up she is the real deal. Says Bruce about her skincare routine, “to go to sleep feeling clean and sweet as a baby, I cleanse my skin with Woodbury Cold Creme – the self purifying cream that stays sweet and pure.” I understand “clean” but “sweet”? For bed really?
11″x14″; ink on paper and 1940s Life Magazine; 2016
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This is Liza trying to find Judy. She wants to be a star.
2016
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Sharon is showing her Doxie how to sit pretty. Model and show, Sharon, model and show.
2016