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My work transcends traditional artistic boundaries to create emotional narratives that explore Human Experience, identity and feminism.
A Woman’s Work is Never Done
Medium: Cast Resin, Collectible Thimbles of the First Ladies
Size: 36″H x 48″W
Description: A Woman’s Work is Never Done features 20 female hands-each giving the middle finger while wearing a commemorative thimble with the portrait of a U.S. First Lady. The purple color symbolizes royalty and power, reclaiming dignity in the face of historical dismissal. The thimbles-symbols of domestic labor-are to be worn on the middle finger.
The Perfect Wife
Medium: Recycled Wedding Dresses, Beads, Doll Heels, Pill Casings, Crystals, Wire
Size: 25″H x 18″W
Description: The Perfect Wife is a hanging lantern constructed from wire and encased in recycled divorceé’s wedding dresses. Words are beaded into each side with traits of “the perfect wife.” At the base a conglomeration of doll heels, crystals and pills hang down to catch the light.
It’s Not That Hard
Medium: Fabric, Photography, Embroidery, Tape
Size: 11.5″ x 11.5″
Description: Photo transfer on fabric with added embroidery.
Eye Spy a Narcissist
Medium: Cyanotype on Fabric with Original Text, Cotton
Size: 17″ x 34″
Description: Eye Spy a Narcissist is a piece created from unique text printed using cyanotype on fabric.
Chaos
Medium: Fabric/Paint
Size: 14” x 18” framed
Description: Warm gradient color study hand stitched in ancient sashiko technique.
Balance
Medium: Fabric/Paint
Size: 14” x 18” framed
Description: Cool gradient color study hand stitched in ancient sashiko technique.
Silent No More
Medium: Deconstructed Wedding Dresses/Veil, Paint, Duct Tape
Size: 19.5” x 19.5” framed
Description: Silent No More is an expression of finding one’s voice after divorce. Wedding gowns create the background and sections of wedding dresses were painted to create the flowers. Wedding gowns were donated by divorced women.
Free
Medium: Deconstructed Wedding Dresses/Veil, Paint
Size: 19.5” x 19.5” framed
Description: Free is constructed from pieces of wedding dresses and abandoned wedding accessories of divorcées as an expression of healing marital abuse and trauma.
Unbound
Medium: Deconstructed wedding dresses, paint, ties
Size: 40” x 26”
Description: Unbound is a visual representation of healing through divorce and experiencing freedom from marital expectations. It was constructed using sections of wedding dresses from divorcées’ including my own.
Don’t Lose My Number
Medium: Fabric/Acrylic
Size: 12.5”
Description: Sometimes things are simply black and white. Fabric scraps are pieced and hand stitched using ancient sashiko technique in this personal reflection of abuse.
Expectations
Medium: Deconstructed Wedding Dress and Veil, Fabric/Paint
Size: 19”
Description: Repurposed feminine fabrics are stitched onto a background of wedding dress in this reflection on societal expectations. Words are painted on torn strips of wedding veil.
Desert Color Study
Medium: Cotton, Sashiko stitching
Size: 40” x 26”
Description: Repurposed fabric scraps are assembled and hand stitched to reflect the desert landscape using an ancient Japanese mending technique called Sashiko.
Threads of Youth
Medium: Repurposed fabric scraps
Size: 40” x 50”
Description: This improvisional piece utilizes scraps saved by the artist over 10 years of sewing for her sons. It reflects all of their stages and interests in their journey through early childhood.
