Collage in miniature is always of interest. A gift for yourself or someone else. Every time a fire is lit, something will spark in the imagination or memory.

Read into it everything you'd like to. The artist was a Women's Studies major so it is not by chance this thread of ephemera has been pulled into the present.

A trim woman with pale white skin dons the head of a bird whose pointy beak must be designed for fishing in a marsh. Her bird eyes look past the batter she is mixing with her human hands. Her human form rests in a foundation of block letters in a banner spelling out the words, "PLAY MONEY."

A soft and dusty blue paper is the backdrop for this handy little artwork.

- Measures 2.75" by 2" x 1"
- Original art includes matches

Margaret Rizzio is an assemblage artist who creates poignant and provocative works of art. Using colorful vintage ephemera, Rizzio’s background in Women’s Studies offers sharp and often witty commentary on the “perfect woman” of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s.

Born and raised in Maine, Margaret returned to her home state after attending college in nearby Vermont. She is interested in memory and the passage of time. Each layered collage is a small world unto itself in which Rizzio curates a sense of synchrony and repetition.

Rizzio is represented by the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, Maine.