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Linda Elkins was born and raised near Detroit Michigan. She left the midwest for the southwest living there for 15 years before returning to Michigan and getting her MFA in fibers. From Fibers(weaving) her work evolved into bookmaking, paper making and collage and assemblage.
She enjoys ressurecting things that have been discarded, left behind, replaced, or just broken and combining them into other identities with new meanings. Whether collage or assemblage, at times her work involves universal human concerns and at times her own fantasy world. She especially likes juxtaposing the past with the present, creating layers of meaning. Alchemy comes to mind. Each thing she uses has had a past life, a past conotation or meaning, and she attempts to place each into a new arena of relationships. Recently much of her work seems to be an attempt to answer “what’s it all about?” and “who/what has been here before me(us)/”. She consioders herself a miner of lost things, lost ideas, metaphors. Those people who know her studio space, know she has a lot of “stuff” from which she harvests and gathers materials.