Lisa Henderson's Artist Profile
Lisa Henderson from tonopah, Arizona, United States
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this is something i love doing like i said before i love making something out of nothing! there is nothing so special than making the stuff i do. very original and nothing like them, i am not very good with words i have ADHD, and its always been hard to complete any task. i have to work so much harder than other people but when i start doing this i just keep going and creating. my imagination is wild and funny, i like things that make you smile and laugh when you see it. I have had so many bad things happen to me in my life that i think i make these things that make people smile and that gives me a charge to do more of what i love to do.I should be writing a book instead about my life it would be a number one best seller, but i cant concentrate long enough to write it because of the ADHD . lol I try not to be a serious person i love to laugh and have fun. that's why i make these walking sticks there so much fun to make and create and to come up with different cartoon character's. its funny i can just look at something and go hm mm i can make something out of this. I told my husband last night as a joke i could make that speaker look really different put wings on it and make it look like the old aerosmith album! he just looked at me and said no. so funny!! anyway i hope you enjoy as much as i do making them. i think if you believe in something hard enough you can make it happen. my mom use to be my biggest fan but she passed away last year and my grandma and aunt, it was a really hard year for me and that's when i started making these guys (walking sticks)i think it was my mom saying to me keep making those things they are so different and cute and they make you happy making them. the things i make come from my heart and i do look at them like they are character's in a cartoon. they all have names and i hear there little comical voices in my head. don't get me wrong i don't hear voices i just put a voice to the characters that i make. thank you
Artist's Statement
this is something i love doing like i said before i love making something out of nothing! there is nothing so special than making the stuff i do. very original and nothing like them, i am not very good with words i have ADHD, and its always been hard to complete any task. i have to work so much harder than other people but when i start doing this i just keep going and creating. my imagination is wild and funny, i like things that make you smile and laugh when you see it. I have had so many bad things happen to me in my life that i think i make these things that make people smile and that gives me a charge to do more of what i love to do.I should be writing a book instead about my life it would be a number one best seller, but i cant concentrate long enough to write it because of the ADHD . lol I try not to be a serious person i love to laugh and have fun. that's why i make these walking sticks there so much fun to make and create and to come up with different cartoon character's. its funny i can just look at something and go hm mm i can make something out of this. I told my husband last night as a joke i could make that speaker look really different put wings on it and make it look like the old aerosmith album! he just looked at me and said no. so funny!! anyway i hope you enjoy as much as i do making them. i think if you believe in something hard enough you can make it happen. my mom use to be my biggest fan but she passed away last year and my grandma and aunt, it was a really hard year for me and that's when i started making these guys (walking sticks)i think it was my mom saying to me keep making those things they are so different and cute and they make you happy making them. the things i make come from my heart and i do look at them like they are character's in a cartoon. they all have names and i hear there little comical voices in my head. don't get me wrong i don't hear voices i just put a voice to the characters that i make. thank you
well to begin with i have always been able to pick up something an make something out of nothing. my first piece was a stump in the ground that was partially showing and i dug it up and made a beautiful table out of it. now its everything i see even a dead cow on the side of the road i take the home and made walking sticks out of the vertebrae and the ribs i make slapstick or spank me sticks as my friends call them! i make all kinds of things, i am asked all the time how do you come up with this stuff! i say i just do, my dad was very artistic he used to make totem poles when he wasn't working as an iron worker. i worked at a nuclear power plant for 13 years and i was wore out and my back was shot from all the work i had done in my life. so now i do this art work. my friends said to stop giving them away and make a living out of this so here i am. I love creating my walking sticks they have so much character and they make you smile and a great conversation piece. If you like attention you will get it walking with one of these. but i myself do not like a lot of attention, i'm pretty introverted until i get to know you. I have 4 west highland Terrie's dogs and they keep me busy. my husband is retired air force mp. He keeps me going through all the bad times with my back and the pain i go through is tuff, but i love making things out of nothing pain or not. just a shrt story about a stump i was after, we had a expedition suv, well you know how high they sit so my idea was to hook a bungy cord to it and hook it to the ball on the back of the suv and pull it out! bad idea! i was driving and went to go foward and hit the gas and that thing came flying out of the ground and through the back glass of the suv, my husband was in shock and he thought i was going to kill him (even though it wasnt his fault) well he walked up to the drivers side where i was and i couldnt breath i was laughing so hard!! that was the funnist thing i had ever did! you had to have seen his face.