Children often have a way of preserving special experiences and tender memories with keepsake objects.  Sometimes hiding (or even locking) them away.  This rare and very old lithographed paper-covered wood safe stores a young boy's treasures.  Among them: a silver dollar, a small children's bible, an extremely valuable 1933 Babe Ruth card, a WWI toy badge, an arrowhead, an indian head penny and a "First Prize" pin.  Symbolically mounted atop the safe is an antique German-made brass compass.  A Buffalo-head nickel is dropping into the saving's slit. Two marbles from Italy rest on a wooden stand.

Artist Statement and Biography

After a career in advertising (formerly CEO of Cincinnati-based Northlich), Mark's love for great design, primitive antiques and unusual found objects all converged to form his creation of assemblages.

"Some works convey a message, some an outgrowth of a  personal story, some a flight of fantasy and others are simply compositions that just look and feel right.  Each one has been put through the torture test of long stares.   My work aims to give very special found objects a new life and context."

A collection of Serrianne assemblages were exhibited in February, 2017 at the juried national show of the American Craft Council in Baltimore, Maryland.