Nancy Keeler

I take photos just for fun and the quality of shots is dependent on my phone camera, but here are some pictures I’ve taken near where I live. It’s a very pretty area; a wetlands.

I don’t do a lot of art, but I do some occasionally and it is important to me. I’ve never tried to sell anything although I did sell a watercolor once, and when I worked at a screen print shop at age 20 in my hometown, a local flower shop owner used my design as outdoor signage for his entrances.

I lasted one or two semesters in studio art as a freshman major, and even though I enjoyed the comradery of the studio—where Mr. Aunspaugh played Erik Satie on the record player while we drew—I grew restless with it. From there I went on to art history and with a few other choices along the way, eventually got my bachelor’s degree in history—cultural history, that is, with a focus on ancient Near East.

Here are some examples of things I’ve done over the years:

Lately I’ve taken up glue booking, junk journaling, whatever you want to call it—I think it depends on context. I made this one for my sister last December for Christmas. I think you’d call it a glue book rather than a junk journal, as it’s made primarily from purchased materials, not findings:

These aren’t mine—I didn’t make them…I just like them.

I used to have a cartoon poster that said, “I finally got it all together and now I can’t remember where I put it,” but I guess I…can’t remember where I put it.