Allow me to elaborate?

City Pages "Dressing Room" blog has a neato new feature called
100 Creatives

You can read their profile about me/my art here:
Jennifer Davis : 100 Creatives

I wanted to share a little bit more about this part:
"Name three things that inspired and/or motivated you as a budding creative type:
1. Richard Scary's Best Story Book Ever and my childhood toys. (I recently rediscovered the book and boxes full of my old toys/drawings. Everything I do makes more sense to me now)..."

I had no conscious recollection of these books until I rediscovered my childhood toys.



Could this be the root of my inexplicable obsession with (upsidedown?!?!) wind instruments over the years?!?!



I was pretty surprised to see how many parallels i found between these books and my paintings.







Here is my special TeddyBear- handmade and handed down through my mother's GINORMOUS family:


I guess childhood toys really do matter! Good thing I wasn't into violent video games.