Autumn Puddle
(size 15″x20″) Whole cloth enhanced with machine stitching. The cloth was the result of a process called iron cloth transfer using leaves. A chemical interaction between the mordanted cloth and the leaves transfers the leaf image onto the fabric. This piece also transferred the dye from the other cloth used in the process. 
Friends
(size 28″ x 19″) The background fabric is a combination of hand dyed fabric (bottom) and an iron cloth from a previous project (top). This image is a homeless man with his 2 dogs (his best friends) done in hand dyed fabrics.
Fit to be Tied
(size 11″t x 8.5″x8.5″) This mixed media piece has a wood armature covered with paper clay and paper mache’. Her hair is the dry blossom in a Night Blooming Sires and she is standing on wasp nests.
Into the Wind
(size 6″x6″x15″) He’s another one of the street people. Just glancing at him you have no idea what his story is but if you look closely at his cap you will see a history of sexual abuse that has colored his life. Now you can understand a bit better how he came to be where he is.
Paper Mache’ over and armature. The “cart” is made from wire cloth and coated heavy gauge wire.
Am I Her?
(size 27″x36″) As I age, my past emerges. This piece is about all the time that has passed. The old quilt top came from some grandmother of mine as I remember and I’ve patched it with parts of a favorite skirt now in my stash. My sister embellished this shirt for me decades ago and I finally decided it was time to dismantle what was left of it to add to said stash. Then I remembered some of my baby clothes were tucked in a cedar chest for, who in the future, I don’t know. So I played with the parts to create this idea of looking back.
Kimono Iris
( size 22″x49″) I love my garden flowers. Particularly the wonderful color changes I find in the iris. This is a view from my garden. After editing it on Photo Shop until the color was one I’d never seen on iris, I needed to find fabric that would translate my image. A friend had given me a kimono that matched. I deconstructed and machine washed (sacrilege I know) the parts and they survived. And that is how a kimono became an iris.
Machine appliqued fused fabrics. Kimono for iris’s and hand dyed fabric for the background
Washing Windows
(size 12″x23″) Nothing feels better on a hot summer day lying in the hammock thinking about all the things you should be doing instead. These are a friends feet doing just that. A few years ago I made a piece called Chillin of my Feet from my view in the hammock. She always liked the piece so took this picture as a laugh and gave it to her as a gift.
…As an Elephant’s Eye
(size 30″x28″) Can you see her? Once you know there is an elephant in the picture she can’t be ignored (like the elephant in the room). I love to Photo Shop images until they expand beyond the obvious. I took this image from gray to orange and yellow and then had to figure out how to get the speckled design on it.
I enjoy using Paint Stiks so found a stencil that had a design that went with the Indian elephant and background fabric then carefully stenciled the design exactly where I wanted it. The fabrics are hand dyed except the background fabric.
Bunching the Rug
(size 15x9x14) Mixed media sculpture. Air dry clay, wood chips, acrylic paint.
Feelin’ Pleasant
(size 15″x19″) This beautiful old man is named Phil Pleasant. When I met him I knew I had to do a piece about him. When he told me his name he followed it by saying “I always feel pleasant.”
This black and white piece was for a challenge where you couldn’t use gray. To create the brick wall and most of the other textures in this piece I used Paint Stiks rubbed over textured surfaces. To make the bricks I used a paper shield over the fabric and open corrugated cardboard under it.
Shining Light on the Vanishing Depth
(size 27″x55.5″) This piece needs to be hung high on a wall so that the point of view is from the coral reef.
Garbage covers areas of the ocean surface and pollutants deprive the water of nutrients needed for health.
