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Johns Hopkins Magazine S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 0 I S S U E
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The happy accidents of collage Illustrator Melissa Grimes, whose work over the past two decades has appeared in such venues as Rolling Stone, GQ, Mother Jones, and The Washington Post, tackled her collage for "Home, Sick Home" with glee. "It's every girl's dream to do a doll house, and the added twist of its being a 'poisonous' doll house made it even more fun, says Grimes, whose studio in Austin, Texas, is crammed with scraps (vintage postcards, book jackets, maps) she has collected over the years. Having recently shifted to doing collage on the computer, Grimes was happy to take a more hands-on approach for this project. "I like the 'accidents' that can occur," she says. |