Greenery

Title: Greenery
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, laminated images, beads, lace, found fabrics, fabric pastels, acrylic paint, embroidery floss
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2007

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Drifting Still Lifes

Title: Drifting Still Lifes
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, laminated images, velvet, sock fabric, cotton fabric, fabric pastels
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2007

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Terraform

Title: Terraform
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, inkjet printed fabric, fabric paint, laminated images, buttons, brads, part of a pair of pants
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2007

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Secret Collector

Title: Secret Collector
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, inkjet printed fabric, cotton fabric, laminated images, fabric paint
Dimensions: 9.5" by 13"
Date: 2007
This quilt is now in a private collection.

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Underwater Dance Party

Title: Underwater Dance Party
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, various fabrics, found jewelry parts, watch, fabric paint, laminated drawings, joss paper, magazine images
Dimensions: 9.5" by 13"
Date: 2007

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Serious Dilemma #1

Title: Serious Dilemma #1
Media: super fray-tastic polyester curtain material, inkjet printable cotton, laminated found cartoon talk bubbles, colored thread, prismacolor marker, fabric paint
Date: 2007

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Diary Quilt, Bears Have Excellent Suggestions

Title: Diary Quilt, Bears Have Excellent Suggestions
Media: velvet, inkjet printable cotton, laminated inkjet prints on paper
Date: summer 2007

It was unbearably hot at my job, so I made this quilt, in which an imaginary friend tries to help me out.
The talk bubbles read, from left to right, "Bleh. It is too humid.", and "You must try my latest totally fictional invention! An anti-humidity spray designed by certified experts to eliminate all humid conditions within a ten meter radius with just one Spritz! Satisfaction would be guaranteed if I weren't a complete figment of your imagination."

Diary Quilt, Dangerous Obsessions

Title: Diary Quilt, Dangerous Obsessions
Media: upholstery fabric, lace, inkjet printable cotton, laminate, inkjet on paper, found cartoon talk bubble
Date: summer 2007
The talk bubbles read, from top to bottom:
"You are a woman composed entirely of dangerous and frightening obsessions", "I have not had mochi in a long time," "We're quite sting-y", and "Seriously, no one takes the mochi!"

This quilt was created entirely around a found cartoon talk bubble that read, "I have not had mochi in a long time," and ended up being a wonderfully silly illustration of danger-defying stunts, radioactive scorpions and fun for the whole family.

Lace Lips

Title: Lace Lips
Media: super fray-tastic polyester curtain material, inkjet printable cotton, colored thread, fabric paint, black lace
Date: summer 2007

This quilt is now in a private collection.

Moon Lives

Title: "Moon Lives"
Date: August 1, 2007
Media: Digital photography, pencil drawing, and photoshop-ery

This is my take on Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 27, 2007, 'Moon,' - I had an entirely different idea originally involving a photo of very pale tiny polished stones and the little cut glass jewels I keep finding on the streets of New York to represent the Moon, but it simply didn't look ethereal enough with the original photograph, so I added various other elements - if you look closely, the original photograph is still in there, obscured by the darkness!

Poem, via Exquisite Corpse Method

Title: 'Poem, via Exquisite Corpse Method'
Media: Digital photograph
Date: July 25, 2007

My take on Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 20, 'Poem,' which I thought would be fun to illustrate using the idea of pulling random words and phrases from a box and gluing them down pretty much as they came out to make a poem.

Personal Discovery

Title: 'Personal Discovery'
Media: Digital photograph, Photoshop-y tweaking
Dimensions: Variable
Date: July 18, 2007

This charming clay figure is my response to Illustration Friday's theme for the week of July 13, 'Discovery' - our bodies are always such a delightful mystery, both inside and out. What a discovery to make, eh!

"Geeky" theme from Illustration Friday

Title: Geeky!
Media: velvet, inkjet printable fabric, inkjet prints on paper, sheer fabric, holographic paper, laminate
Dimensions: 10 by 11 inches
Date: July 2007
My creation for Illustration Friday's theme of the week of July 6-13, 2007. How awesome (and appropriate) is it that the week I discover Illustration Friday, their theme is "Geeky"!

Julio the Wrestler, from "Sculpted Portraits" series

Photograph taken with Nikon D80 Digital SLR
July 2007
From "Sculpted Portraits" series

I've been making very small sculptures of faces out of air-dry clay and then photographing them against various backgrounds, and experimenting with various types of lighting. This image was created by covering my air-dry clay guy with glitter and gold leaf, giving him features found in trashy magazines or old art catalogs, and then photographing him on the table in my living room. I believe I used the built-in flash on my camera for this one.

Image from "Sculpted Portraits" series

Photograph, taken with Nikon D80 Digital SLR
July 2007
From "Sculpted Portraits" series

I've been making very small sculptures of faces out of air-dry clay and then photographing them against various backgrounds, and experimenting with various types of lighting. This is just the ambient light from my window, at 8pm in July in New York, and the sculpted face is lying on his background on my table, with the light coming from "underneath" him, that is, his head is pointed away from the window. Gives him kind of a haunted look.

Diary Quilt, About Love (from vintage photo)

Title: Diary Quilt, About Love (from vintage photo)
Media: polyester curtain fabric, confetti, sheer fabric, fabric paint
Date: 2007

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Diary Quilt, Child with mask, foliage, phoenixes, flowers

Title: Diary Quilt, Child with mask, foliage, phoenixes, flowers
Media: inkjet printed fabric, cotton, polyester, commercial embroidered fabric, fabric paint, zipper
Date: 2007

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Diary Quilt, Candle Cave

Title: Diary Quilt, Candle Cave
Media: silk, velvet, upholstery, studs, iron-on transfers, photographs
Date: 2007
This quilt was sold during my show at The Moon gallery in Oakland, CA, and is now in a private collection.

Diary Quilt, Forest Mountain Collage

Title: Diary Quilt, Forest Mountain Collage
Media: cotton, silk, polyester, upholstry fabric, buttons, paper, iron-on transfers, felt, fabric paint, permanent marker
Date: 2007
This quilt was purchased during the October-November show at The Moon gallery in Oakland, and is now in a private collection.

Diary Quilt, An Ingenious Pun

Title: Diary Quilt, An Ingenious Pun
Media: vintage handkerchief, inkjet printed fabric, iron-on transfer, cotton, laminated images
Dimensions: 8.5" by 10.125"
Date: 2007

The text in the talk-bubble reads, "Isn't it an obvious and ingenious visual pun?"