A Pine Grove Through the Seasons, 1962
2023. 15” x 12” accordion book with linen/cotton blend bookcloth cover, hand-painted endpapers, and six hand-colored prints of the same print. Edition of three, each with different hand-painted endpapers, each with six different hand-colored prints of the same print, one per page. Narrative from the Title Page Artists are always outdoors on Quiet Island, drawing, […]
A Blustery Windy Day on Quiet Island
2022. Accordion book with wool cover, housed in clamshell box.Cover, wool with text embroidered with cotton threads; interior, linen embroidered with cotton threads. Open, 6 x 22 inches; closed, 6 x 11 inches. Blustery windy days on Quiet Island are those in-between weather days (gusty and wild but not hurricane) where being outside is fine, […]
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
“Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus.” The poem “The New Colossus” was written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. It is a poem of welcome to newcomers looking for safety and a home. People have migrated forever, to a different town, city, or country, with the hope for a new life. This poem gives voice to the […]
The New Colossus
2019. Accordion book with wool cover.Cover, wool embroidered with cotton threads; interior, linen sewn with cotton threads. Open, 5 x 24 inches; closed, 5 x 4 inches. Clamshell box measures 5 1/2” by 2” by 7”. “The New Colossus,” written by Emma Lazarus in 1883, is a poem of welcome to newcomers looking for safety […]
North Beach on Quiet Island
2018. Accordion book with wool cover.Cover, wool with text embroidered with cotton thread; interior, linen banding embroidered with cotton thread. Open, 5 x 20 inches; closed, 5 x 12 inches. The interior of “North Beach on Quiet Island” is a panorama view across sand dunes to the ocean, and its cover says, “North Beach on […]
One Day in May, 1905
In progress. A hand-embroidered multi-page book with pages echoing early 1900s aesthetics, with textile designs, a diary page, and other text; 6 x 9 inches, hand-embroidered with cotton, silk, polyester, and rayon thread on linen pages.
Three Books
2016. Three accordion books with the theme of remembrance; each hand-embroidered with cotton, silk, polyester, and rayon thread on linen, 3.5 by 20 inches. The books are meant to be carried with their owners, to be looked at when needed, as a memento or a reminder of a beloved who has passed away. The bottom […]
How a Bandage Works
2017. Accordion book with wool cover.Cover, wool embroidered with cotton, silk, rayon, and polyester threads; interior, linen sewn with cotton, silk, and rayon threads. Open, 6 x 28 inches; closed, 6 x 8 inches. “How a Bandage Works” shows the progress of healing over time. You can imagine the bandage wrapped around a bleeding wound: […]
Whatever Happened to Louisa?
2020. Accordion book with wool cover.Cover, wool with text embroidered with cotton, silk, rayon, and polyester threads; interior, linen embroidered with cotton, silk, rayon, and polyester threads. Open, 4.5 x 19 inches; closed, 4 x 5 inches. “Whatever Happened to Louisa” documents the mysterious death of Louisa, in the style of Agatha Christie, with images […]