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Dr. Shimpock's Letter
9" x 11 3/8"
by Melissa Manley-Daniels
Wilmington, NC
Somerset Studio - Jul/Aug 02
Melissa scanned items from Dr. Shimpock’s doctor bag, Bible, and photograph. She arranged the items in a digital collage and printed on Arches watercolor paper. She copper-embossed a clock (Inkadinkado) and wrote a letter with acrylic paint. She stained the letter with coffee and glued it to the bottom. She wrapped foamcore strips with faux leather paper for the frame and glued them to the sides. She also cut out black paper corner decorations and glued them to the frame corners.
She constructed a tiny vellum envelope and collaged a letter and inserted it in the envelope. She glued an old marble book endpaper and vellum envelope on top of the book paper. She also made a tiny red seal with a blob of acrylic paint.
 
Melissa staged a photo of a woman in front of live oak tree. She adjusted the photo with Photoshop and printed on photo paper. She then stamped handwriting (Just for Fun) on the paper.
She constructed a foamcore shelf for bottles and glued an old receipt under the smaller hole. She glued the top layer and hide any foamcore by painting with a dark acrylic. Melissa also filled fake medicine bottles, affix labels, and glued bottles onto the shelf. She decorated a metal rimmed tag and a small white tag with ink and printed images. She attached the tags to the bottles with string.
She tore holes in the Dr. Shimpock layer for the top. She stained the torn edges with ink and paint and positioned the photo of a woman underneath the larger opening. She glued it onto a backing board and built up layers of foamcore to raise the Dr. Shimpock layer.
Melissa explained that Dr. Shimpock was a confederate field surgeon, born in 1836, and an ancestor of her employer.