Cynthia Frigon uses the vivid colors, patterns, and textures of magazine and calendar artwork to substitute for pigment and brush strokes in her collages. She uses personal photos taken at various times and locations as her inspiration. The images she creates with only paper, scissors, and glue can appear hauntingly real from a distance, and only up close can one see the individual pieces--almost non sequiturs--that make up the larger piece. Traditionally she has been a closet artist, preferring to use her art to document and decorate her daily life, but in 2012, she began exhibiting modestly by joining ART Station in Stone Mountain, GA, and entering her pieces in member juried shows. The credibility and confidence she gained allowed her to enroll in an arts incubator program and to enter her works in various art exhibits in and around Atlanta. During the summer of 2013, she had her first solo exhibition. She also won Best of Show at the 2013 Decatur Fine Arts Exhibition, and two of her collages have been purchased by the City of Decatur.  Becoming an artist is Cynthia's third career. She has a Master of Arts Degree in English and has most recently taught writing at the college level, as well as having taught literature and drama at the high school level. Prior to becoming a teacher, she was a technical writer, editor, and middle manager in healthcare information systems. Cynthia survived her corporate years by taking art classes around Atlanta--watercolor, acrylic, pastel, drawing, composition, color theory, abstract art--at community art centers. The idea of "painting" with cut magazine pages literally came to her in a dream that has changed her life . . . .