Alease McClenningham

Alease Michelle considers herself a collage architect. She has always been wildly drawn to the process of creating beautiful things from found objects, and sees inspiration all around. Her passion is to breathe new life into bits and pieces of old, worn, and forgotten elements and incorporate them into her work. She enjoys implying the rough outline of a story with the images she chooses and by the bits of ephemera she adds. Alease's love for family history led her to explore photography as another way to share life stories and family experiences. She believes that her combined art forms, put simply, are a celebration of family and life. Family photos call forth pride and the need to celebrate being part of a family. Her passion for family history has allowed her to construct compositions made from fragments of different photos,objects, and letters to tell their unique stories. Her work further allows the viewer to create their own stories about their families and the people who