Title: "The Art of Inclusion #12"
Materials: various commercial fabrics, inkjet printed cotton, hand-dyed cotton, lace, found objects, embroidery floss, laminated imagery, hand-cast resin, leaves, beads, press-on sequins, acrylic paint, crayon, Swarovski crystals, metal findings
Dimensions: 15" by 15"
Date: 2012
Title: A Highly Informative Diagram #1
Media: half of a dollar store placemat, laminated thread, cotton, denim, sheer fabric, felt, ear ring parts, embroidery floss, lace, acrylic paint, metal findings
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2008
This quilt is now in a private collection.
Title: The Same Old Adventure, But It Never Gets Boring
Media: cotton, laminated images, sheer fabric, confetti, embroidered handkerchief, miniature doily, acrylic paint, pencil
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2008
The talk bubbles read:
"You'll have to wait and see, doctor... ...trust me."
and
"Well anyway, try to stay out of trouble."
Title: Sea Creatures & Fruit Stickers
Media: black cotton, inkjet printable cotton, sheer fabric, lace, laminated images, jump rings, buttons, embroidery floss
Dimensions: 20.25" by 10.25"
Date: 2006
Title: New Fruit
Media: Digital collage created using photography and scanned drawings
Date: 2006
Title: The Jewel Field
Media: various found fabrics, laminated images, embroidery floss, sheer fabric
Dimensions: 10.5" by 9"
Date: 2008
Title: Suspicious Girl in a Wild Space
Media: half of a dollar store place mat, laminated paper collage, silk, fabric paint, fake foliage, embroidery floss, studs, dress fabric
Dimensions: 13" by 9.5"
Date: 2008
Title: Stories Told by Scraps #1
Media: Found book cover, packing tape, fabric, thread, solvent-transfered photocopies on watercolor paper, and various found and leftover bits and pieces of things from previous art projects
Date: 2002
I created this book as a way to give new life to various bits and pieces of scraps that I could not bear to get rid of from previous projects. Never throw anything away.
All of these photos are of the book, "Stories Told by Scraps #1" - The front and back cover, several page spreads, and images of the book's pages fanned out are shown here. Click on photos to see larger versions.
Title: Diary Quilt, Child with mask, foliage, phoenixes, flowers
Media: inkjet printed fabric, cotton, polyester, commercial embroidered fabric, fabric paint, zipper
Date: 2007
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.
Title: “From the Museum’s Peculiar Collection of Anonymously Donated Items”
Dimensions: 10” by 8”
Media: Inkjet printable cotton, various found fabrics, iron-on transfers, thread, spray paint
Date: 2006
