I've posted a couple of photos in our album of another artist who uses found materials in his work. It's Joey Burns of San Diego. His work is mainly photo collage, but it often borders on being assemblage- sometimes just because the photos are so densely layered on the substrate they are almost three-dimensional.

Joey has been around with his collages for quite some time. I still have a piece laying around here I bought off him for five bucks in 1999 when I had jury duty downtown. He had a couple dozen works spread out around him on a crowded sidewalk. I've seen him from time to time since then in various locations.

These pictures were taken last January. He had been setting up in an alley adjacent to Ray St., site of a monthly art event called Ray at Night, a sort of open gallery night for the general public. He said his recent work had been mainly inspired by a pile of Oprah magazines he had serendipitously found in the street.

Unfortunately, I did not see him down there in February or March. I did, however, run into him last weekend showing his work in a more conventional manner- on a table indoors at a show for local artists and crafts people. He said one of the gallery owners on Ray St. had called the cops to run him out of his alley. Too bad. I think Joey's work is more interesting than much of the faux-Juxtapose magazine art and living room kitsch that many artists show down there.