Collages, Paintings, Installtions and Poetry In my visual art I use text mixed with found and searched for objects. Much of the material I use has been discarded. I then rebirth it and give it new energy and life. While I do have a method and an idea for what I am creating I also allow my heart and my instinct to be a important of the process. I  hope in some way to visually express and present an ancient voice or a healing engery in my pieces. My pieces are a part of me present and a part of some older ancient self. I hope in time as these voices become closer my art and my soul will be more free. My poems are also collages. I may take text from different books and type up what words or groups of words appeal to me. I may write up to three or four pages like this then take what affects my eye and my instinct and write a poem. I also may get a group of words or a line in my head, I then start with those and write and write until the words and the paper and I come together and create a poem. Words are very powerful and I am always aware how they are used. They can trick us or free us they can hurt or the can heal . So I am very interested what goes on behind the words in some ways I have made my home between them. Thomas Carney