In an electronic age, Meyer's work commemorates the enduring importance of paper and its contents.  Her life-long love of books and her decades of work as a trial attorney are evident in her works as a collage artist.  She explains:

        Paper tells our stories; paper is evidence, proof, maybe even truth.  Paper is intimate and democratic.  It documents the most important events and the most trivial details of our lives--newspapers and contracts, love letters and family photographs, grocery lists and dry cleaning receipts.  Paper bears the images of our face, the evidenceo our hand.  It is the most human object in our lives, our inanimate skin.  

        Paper captures the texture of eveyday life, the effect of aging.  The content of a piece of paper--torn, partially obliterated, in a foreign language--is the tip of the iceberg of an unseen story.  This mirrors how we can only ever perceive a part of reality, and the fragmentary but enduring nature of memory.  The appearance of the paper--whether it is printed or typed or handwritten, the discolorations, stains, and creases--makes the paper visually interesting, and is a reminder that time is a part of every story.  In fact, time, linear and cyclical, is the story.       

        I select the papers for each piece based on their color and content, and combine them in a fairly linear and simple design.  All the qualities of a piece of paper--its color, the words and pictures on it, its imperfections--are visual elements that work in the larger design.  But vintage paper is not an invitation to easy nostalgia, its a challenge to look closely at the intricate world now.  Bits of other people's past combine to create a new, unique whole, and the juxtaposition of different scraps of paper suggests how intricately things connect and relate, as well as how time and memory govern our lives.  A collage is a paper Indra's net.           

        I work with a sense of curiosity, and end with an appreciation of the richness and detail of evreyday life.

        Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Judith Meyer grew up in California and Louisiana.  After attending Tulane Law School, she moved to Houston, where she has worked as a commerical litigation trial lawyer.  She has studied at MFAH's Glassell School of Art, where she focused on design and collage.  her work has been shown in solo and group exhibtions.