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My digital montages are primarily autobiographical. I combine my photographs, drawings, and computer-generated imagery with snapshots from the family archive and collected antique photographs. They are an eclectic blend that weaves together my ideas, memories, and discoveries in order to enshrine the symbols and curios of my life into cryptic combinations that take on a life of their own. The images talk to me as I control and manipulate them. As I follow a romantic notion of the ancestral path, self-portraiture remains an important element.”S.M.

1954	born
1976	B.A. Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1978	M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
	Professor, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; lives in Chicago, IL