This painting began as a full collage of materials dating from the 1930s and 1940s taken from my mother-in-law’s scrapbooks. As background, I was given my beautiful mother-in-law’s scrapbooks when she passed to work into my collage pieces. In the base of this painting are some of her gems hidden under paint and some exposed. There are writings, old papers, menus, dance cards, etc. At the time I be…