My childhood love of nature, mushroom hunting, forest roaming, fairies, and fairy tales is alive and well in my art. While I know that there is a scientific explanation for the occurrence of fairy rings in fields and forests, I still think its fun to imagine that mushrooms grow in circles because fairies or elves danced in circles in the middle of the night. Collage is an ideal medium for illustrating this lore, since mushroom caps and dancing legs can be cut and pasted together to form a ring of hybrid creatures.