Brian Teters was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Brian constructs his miniature collages quickly and with purpose, switching fluidly between disparate tools, techniques, and image sources guided by a combinatory logic akin to a mnemonic matching game–landscapes from National Geographic stand in as mental snapshots of family trips to Mt. Hood and the Oregon Coast, bicycles and musical instruments are selected as tokens of his father; he sees his mother in a flowerbed from Better Homes & Gardens and so builds her a paper bouquet.  When he finishes a batch of figures he gets up from his desk, presents his tiny gifts, and finds a home for them in his immediate environment.  Bunched together on the wall, his eccentric hybrid figures coalesce into busy worlds bursting with the maximalist color and clatter of a Where’s Waldo?  street scene.  Look closely at any of the individual paper fragments that animate his kitchen-sink arrangements, and more often than not you will find a hastily scrawled dedication–To Mom, From Brian; To Ian, From Brian; To Katie, From Brian–naming the person in his life for whom each piece was lovingly constructed.  His work is grounded in these tiny gestures of affection.