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My Soul, 2024
woodcuts and linocuts on cotton, hand embroidery 20" x 26"
Sparkly pink cotton is the substrate for this self portrait. Don't be fooled by the modest exterior.
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Homeland, 2022
exhumed linen, denim, walnut ink, hand and machine embroidery 33" x 32"
After reading about wool caps from the Middle ages which survive into modern times, I decided to experiment with buried linen. I retrieved theses beautiful rags in just a few weeks from my garden! Hence the title: Homeland
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Flip Turn, 2021
linocuts on cotton 21" X 41"
During the height of the covid 10 lock down, the pool, restricted as it was, offered me some of the only tranquility I could find. Hand over hand, breath after breath, I settled my soul.
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Test Kit, 2023
6 linocut on cotton, acrylic 27" x 18"
This is a how-to inspired by the ubiquitous covid test kits in my medicine cabinet.
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Meat in the Middle, 2020
Ink, Cotton, Thread 19" x 43"
To what extent is a barnyard boar or a sow a human invention?
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Hood Cutter, 2020
Ink, Cotton, Thread, embroidery floss, feather 36" x 18"
The whole cast is here on this banner--Riding Hood, Grandmother, Woodcutter and the Wolf. Age, Youth, Good, Evil, Male, Female, Hunger, Surfeit, Illness, Health.
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Memory, 2020
Inks, Cotton, Collage, Thread 21" x 16"
I am a little girl holding a hose and filling a blow up pool for my baby sister as my mother looks on.
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Only 2 Alternatives, 2020
Ink, Cotton, Thread 48" x 31"
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Marriage, 2020
Ink, Cotton, Thread 15" x 44"
Marriage changes us.
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Incarnations, 2020
Ink, Cotton 24" x 22"
The message is: Nobody is as angelic or as evil as s/he may appear on the surface.
