These are abstract pieces with nature as a starting point.
FIELDS
This is a piece created for a national juried show, "12 Voices". The show opens in Traverse City, Michigan in September of 2008.
DELTA THREE
For years I had looked out of plane windows and
thought to myself, all those little squares and funny shapes down there,
they look like a quilt… One day it hit me. I make quilts! That was the first
“fabric collage”. If you look at “Delta” in the
Cal/EPA series you will see a much larger, more refined version of this
very first fabric collage.
BRANCH: U-TURN AND STRETCH
These pieces of branches convey feelings, by their
very construction and how they relate to the space around them. After
more than a year spent working on collages of trees, I focused here on
just a very small bit of a tree - a piece of a branch - in an attempt
to distill something to its essence.
REFLECTIONS 1 & 2
So many of my collages feature water, but they
usually include an object as well as the object's reflection. In this
case I chose to look at the more abstract nature of reflections, omitting
the object totally and focusing just on the reflection.
WEAVE
This piece had its start with objects in nature.
But I chose to focus on color, movement & pattern - letting go of the
object in the process.
A NEW LEAF
This piece was awarded as a New Works Grant from
the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. It was created for Women
Escaping a Violent Environment (WEAVE). This piece is about change. It
focuses on leaves turning color in the fall, the movement of the wind
and the turning of leaves as they dry and fall from the tree. But hidden
in the autumn, and nurtured in the winter, is the promise of a new leaf
in the spring.
GREEN WATER
Whenever I complete a fabric collage, in addition
to taking a photograph of the entire piece, I also take a series of “detail”
photos. These show small parts of the piece, illustrating the construction
and materials. But I’ve noticed that these detail shots ar e often
at least as interesting as the whole finished collage. This piece, Green
Water, is my first finished collage that started as a detail. The entire
subject is just that little view of the river, framed by rocks. Without
the larger context, it has a more abstract feel.
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Fields
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Delta Three |
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Branch U-Turn
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Branch Stretch |
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Reflections 1 |
Reflections 2
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Weave |
A New Leaf
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Green Water
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