Self-Portrait
Size: 117” x 110”
Year: 2025
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free motion quilting, appliqué, machine binding.
Study for Self-Portrait
#1–5
Study for Self-Portrait #1
Size: 13” x 13”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free motion quilting, raw edge appliqué, machine binding.
Study for Self-Portrait #2
Size: 13” x 13”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, raw edge appliqué, free motion quilting, machine binding.
Study for Self-Portrait #3
Size: 15½” x 13”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free motion quilting, machine binding.
Study for Self-Portrait #4
Size: 15¼” x 14¼”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, machine quilting, machine binding.
Study for Self-Portrait #5
Size: 16½” x 14½”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free motion quilting, machine binding.
Naked Singularity
The theoretical existence of naked singularities is important because their existence would mean that it would be possible to observe the collapse of an object to infinite density.
Size: 48” x 37½”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free motion quilting, machine binding.
This is Bullshit
Ruminations on childhood.
Size: 62” x 58½”
Year: 2024
Materials: cotton fabric, variegated/cotton thread, wool batting, M10 nickel closed end zipper, 122 mirrored buttons.
Techniques: piecing, raw edge appliqué, free motion quilting, machine binding, cutting quilt in half and applying zipper, hand sewing.
Owl Obscura
The violence of technocracy. Extraterrestrials and screen memories. Cremation of care. Symbol of all wisdom. A playground of self-absorption. The ship of fools. War, psychological torture, mutilation—regenerate and reconstruct. Spread your wings only with the falling of dusk. Restored or renewed? The voice of temptation. Shriek for humanity at large. Who is presiding over these scenes with watchful eyes? They know your desires, your deepest fears.
Size:
Year: 2022
Materials: cotton fabric, black and hand dyed velvet, silk, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread, three mirror buttons.
Techniques: piecing, raw edge appliqué, free motion quilting, hand sewing, seam ripping, flanged machine binding.
The Eternal Pyramid
“Line up! Single file! Make an offering to The Eternal Pyramid!” The urban poor comply. This ecclesiastical institution is all anyone knows. Is this the promise of everlasting life or unremitting torment? What lies at the center of the pyramid makes us whole again.
Size:
Year: 2022
Materials: cotton fabric scraps, black velvet, three shades of tulle, three broken copper alloy cymbal pieces, $2.00 of United States currency, two grommets, cotton batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, raw edge appliqué, free-motion quilting, free-motion stitching over tulle, traditional/overlock stitch binding.
Double Happiness
“When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It’s that simple. This suggests that it isn’t love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstasy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it’s always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the mirror (or the Camel pack), a promise in the next pair of eyes that smile at us. We glimpse it when we stand still.”
Size:
Year: 2022
Materials: cotton and lamé fabric, wool batting, cotton thread.
Techniques: raw edge appliqué, tied expanded balanced weaving, free-motion quilting, machine binding.
…patron saint of other Things…
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Size:
Year: 2021
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, variegated/cotton thread, metallic thread.
Techniques: raw edge appliqué, free motion quilting, hand stitching, faced binding.
New York, New York
Inside snug and evil.
Size: 77” x 77”
Year: 2021
Materials: cotton fabric, cotton batting, variegated/cotton thread.
Techniques: machine piecing, free-motion quilting, flanged machine binding.
Plate XLVI, Strix Varia
“The antipathy shewn to Owls by every species of day bird is extreme. They are followed and pursued on all occasions; and although few of the day birds ever prove dangerous enemies, their conduct towards the Owls is evidently productive of great annoyance to them. When the Barred Owl is shot at and wounded, it snaps its bill sharply and frequently, raises all its feathers, looks towards the person in the most uncouth manner, but, on the least chance of escape, moves off in great leaps with considerable rapidity.”
Size:
Year: 2020
Materials: cotton fabric, wool batting, cotton thread.
Techniques: raw edge appliqué, free-motion quilting, three sides hand sewn binding, one side selvedge.