Mary Beth Acosta is
The Feral Housewife’s collages started out as part fun, part journal, and all self expression. They are hand assembled the old-fashioned way, involving endless snipping with tiny scissors using a magnifying light. Components and backgrounds are carefully selected and everything painstakingly glued into place. Pieces are then burnished with wax paper and pressed to dry in a heavy tome. Color photo prints are made, matted nd framed or made into postcards.
Mary Beth graduated from William James College in 1977 with a BS in Environmental Science and a minor in art, where she concentrated on silversmithing and ceramics. She has finally emerged from her farm in Boon and her career as a “personal carpenter.” For 25 years her artistic talents were channeled into building two houses for her family, one in the national forest near Boon, MI the other 6 miles north of Northport. In 2002, her Feral Housewife business was born. In addition to collage art, the Feral Housewife does free lance writing. She has been a regular contributor to Northern Home Magazine and has traveled to Umbia, Italy as a travel writer. Custom collages and greeting cards can be special ordered. You may reach her at: mail@FeralHousewife.com |
Armed only with a sharp pair of embroidery scissors and a glue stick, Mary Beth, a.k.a. the Feral Housewife has set out to liberate women from every walk of life; alive or deceased, real or imagined. She endlessly seeks out and collects magazines for her work, favoring those from the 1920s-1940s. Her richest materials come from vintage womens’
magazines from that era. She literally swoons over the images as she pages through them, ripping out anything that catches her eye. She snips out coy smiles, backward glances, a well fitted girdle, women fascinated with telephones, nylon fetishes, and sexual innuendo of every ilk.