 | | Cascadia
The Cascadia series is inspired by living and working in the Pacific Northwest. I am particularly drawn to the rain forests and the lichens and mosses that cling to every surface. The repetition of tiny growth patterns create pattern and texture on a grand and spongy scale. |
| | |  | | Lichen Studies
These studies of patches of lichen, initiated in 2010, give me a format to evaluate shape, color and texture for larger projects. The successful 3" x 3" pieces, featured here, are exhibited as nine studies within a frame. |
| | |  | | Drawings
These pen and ink drawings of lichen give me a chance to study pattern and texture preparatory to creating work in thread. |
| | |  | | Of Eyes
The Of Eyes series explores color and pattern in a small, jewel-like format. For me, the eyes - whether animal or human - are tiny, abstract landscapes where the dark pupil is a gateway to something beyond. |
| | |  | | Traces
I once enjoyed a 17th floor studio in Chicago overlooking Millennium Park and Lake Michigan. Visitors regularly leaned into the windows to see the view, leaving finger and forehead prints on the glass. I started to think about how we leave bits of ourselves wherever we go -- imprints on the landscape of our skin oil, shed hairs, and expelled fluids. This was the birth of the Traces series of work. |
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