New Work?

How odd that this blog is called "new work", and I've been spending the last few weeks, plowing through "old" work, and the piles of STUFF that have accumulated everywhere. I have never considered myself a collector, always eager to get rid of stuff. But it's so strange, that after all these years, I've found that I am a collector. I have photographs, movies, videos and writing from the time I was 12. Oh yes, I've gotten rid of many pieces of art, but I cannot bear to part with my photos. Hmmm...I need to use them in a work of art, so that they'll have a better chance to survive in the future. Or maybe I should just throw them all away. It's not like I have them all dumped into a big box. They are mostly, somewhat orderly. I'm at a cross roads. To keep, or to toss.

In any case, I've been coming across pictures of art I don't remember. It's cool. A little snap into the past. These metal pieces must be from the 90's, my name was still Keegan. I was painting scrap metal objects (which I still enjoy doing, but it eats brushes!)to display with "Alchemy Wearable Art", a line of jewelry made from recycled metals that my friend and fellow artist, Ellen Levitt and I had begun producing in the late 80's. I learned a lot about color from those years of painting small pieces of rusted metal for earrings and pins, and I still enjoy working on a rust colored ground when doing larger paintings.

I wonder if this junk art is hanging in somebody's living room?