As an assemblage artist, I use items that are already out in the world and assemble them in ways to create new meaning, curiosity or absurdity. I source my materials from flea markets, antique malls, junkyards, dollar stores, craft stores, hardware stores, and sometimes the curb.

I make small sculptures and objects ranging from crosses and chalices to keepsake boxes, gourd sculpture, torches and ticklers, nonsense plaques and tabletop monuments. Beginning in 2011, my work includes larger scale sculptures for the LindaLand art garden environment that I am creating.

The goal of my work is always to hit the sweet spot. The sweet spot is the place where divergent elements come together and create a beautiful new dynamic wholeness. It is where the parts and the sum of the parts are in exquisite right relation to one another. This is achieved through a process of adding and subtracting, looking and honing, heeding divine intuition and trusting surprises.

Linda Vista

left "Totem of the Common Ancestors"
from Portfolio: misc Dada