Collected
I’ve started collecting paintings and objects from second hand stores, garage sales, and rummage sales. I see my collecting as a temporary waystation for handmade and artist-made items that have lost their original context but not their meaning. These objects—wooden toys, pottery, paintings, and artifacts—are held for a time, appreciated for their care and intention, and then allowed to continue on to new homes.
Each piece is part of an ongoing story. My role is not to collect permanently, but to witness, preserve, and pass along.
Margaret Mann-Butuk
Painted in 1966 by Margaret Mann-Butuk, Light for the Valleys captures the quiet scale and shifting light of the prairie landscape she returned to again and again. Found decades later at a church rummage sale, the painting carries both a documented exhibition history and a deeply personal connection to place.