In 2000, I completed a series of painted collages that included prose. My desire was then to use the words and images to make a music video of art. My husband Robert and I brainstormed and felt that performance was the only way to make it happen. With that decision, I entered a new realm of layering that created a 3 dimensional metaphor of collage. The result is “Scrubscapes”. “Scrubscapes” is an unintentional operetta. A mix of video, music, and spoken word seems to be the contemporary cultural voice. Organizing pandemonium into a cosmos, “Scrubscapes” embraces the environment by creating art and music about it to become a journey of acceptance and recognition of beauty.

Karin Skiba
2002