Paper Dress With Curls
26″ x 28″ x 1.5″, made of repurposed packing paper, features a pleated & smocked bodice and a skirt made of smocked paper strips that are embellished with cotton-thread hand embroidery, paper scrolls are fixed to the sides or placed within the skirt, 2024.
Paper Dress With Wide Skirt
26″ x 18″ x 1.5″, made of repurposed packing paper, with a smocked bodice and cheese cloth topped skirt, embellished with pipe cleaners and cotton-thread hand embroidery. A possibility for women’s fashion. 2024.
Circle Dress
25″ x 15″ x 1.5″, a single panel of fine-mesh cotton cheesecloth, decorated with pulled holes creating patterned rows and with smocking, pulled-thread white-work embroidery, and other hand embroidery, 20 24.
Triangle Dress
25″ x 15″ x 1.5″, a single panel of fine-mesh cotton cheesecloth, decorated with pulled holes creating patterned rows and with smocking, pulled-thread white-work embroidery, and other hand embroidery, 20 24.
Long Abstract 2
Click image for a more detailed look. Hand-embroidered linen with cotton threads, 21″ x 8″ x .25,” 2023.
Long Abstract 1
Click image for a more detailed look. Hand-embroidered linen with cotton threads, 7″ x 26″ x .25,” 2023.
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, […]
Searching for Solace
Click image for a more detailed look. “Searching for Solace,” hand-embroidered linen with cotton threads, 20” x 3 1/2″ 2020: the year of the coronavirus pandemic (with its medical fallout and societal outcomes), social justice and Black Lives Matter, political perspectives that help or limit change, and a presidential election. No one is unaffected. “Searching […]
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 […]