July/August 2013 Centerfold

This digital collage was created for NadaDada Motel, a zany artist-powered arts festival held the second weekend in June in various downtown motels in Reno, Nevada, as part of my Motel Variation series. I worked from a basis of chance and intuition in making this piece , which contains two manipulated self-portraits. In calling myself a digital alchemist, I’m trying to reference both a classical past and a forward-reaching future in which images with one meaning are combined with others to create new and poetic meanings. I’m a native New Englander who left in 1968 and returned from the West with a different point of view in 2011 to settle in Portland, Maine, and I show at Constellation Gallery in Portland’s Arts District. More of Tracy’s work may be seen at www.ann-tracy.artistwebsites.com