How does she do it?
Armed only with a sharp pair of embroidery scissors and a glue stick, Mary Beth, a.k.a. the Feral Housewife has set out to liberate women from every walk of life; alive or deceased, real or imagined. She is on an endless hunt for vintage magazines for her work, favoring those from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Her richest materials come from vintage womens’ magazines from those eras. She literally swoons over the images as she pages through them, ripping out anything that catches her eye. She snips out coy smiles, backward glances, a well fitted girdle, women fascinated with telephones, nylon fetishes, and sexual innuendo of every ilk.
The Feral Housewife’s collages started out as part fun, part journal, and all self expression. They are hand assembled the old-fashioned way, involving endless snipping with tiny scissors using a magnifying light. Components and backgrounds are carefully selected and everything painstakingly glued into place. Pieces are then burnished with wax paper and pressed to dry in a heavy tome. Color giclee prints can be made from the original collages.
She has the exceptional good luck to live, work and play in Traverse City, MI.
You can contact me at: Feralhousewifecollage@gmail.com I would love to hear from you. Mary Beth Acosta
Armed only with a sharp pair of embroidery scissors and a glue stick, Mary Beth, a.k.a. the Feral Housewife has set out to liberate women from every walk of life; alive or deceased, real or imagined. She is on an endless hunt for vintage magazines for her work, favoring those from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Her richest materials come from vintage womens’ magazines from those eras. She literally swoons over the images as she pages through them, ripping out anything that catches her eye. She snips out coy smiles, backward glances, a well fitted girdle, women fascinated with telephones, nylon fetishes, and sexual innuendo of every ilk.
The Feral Housewife’s collages started out as part fun, part journal, and all self expression. They are hand assembled the old-fashioned way, involving endless snipping with tiny scissors using a magnifying light. Components and backgrounds are carefully selected and everything painstakingly glued into place. Pieces are then burnished with wax paper and pressed to dry in a heavy tome. Color giclee prints can be made from the original collages.
She has the exceptional good luck to live, work and play in Traverse City, MI.
You can contact me at: Feralhousewifecollage@gmail.com I would love to hear from you. Mary Beth Acosta
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