Once people know you’re a collage artist, an assemblage artist, or you reuse things people will give you gifts. Vintage jewelry, magazines, record collections. Not all good gifts are as good as the amazing ones I’ve received I’ll warn you. I’ve been very lucky! The cover of this book was a gift. The papers part of my ever growing paper collection. You have to be very careful when you’re a collage artist. If it isn’t organized (I don’t mean some type of organized madness, but if you had an assistant that could find their way through if necessary) then you are trash collecting. A shift in perspective makes it art.