INVESTIGATING GRIEF

2023

Vintage quilt, silk organza, ash, altered headboard

Variable, at least 7'x4'x5'

2023

Silk organza, hand-dyed and discharge printed cotton, burned pine lumber, machine quilted.

2022

Altered tables, black walnut, ceramic bird, iron paint, silk organza, hand-dyed and discharge printed cotton

2022

Hand dyed and commercially dyed cotton, calico, discharge altered silk organza. Machine quilted.

2022

Dyed and discharge printed cotton, piecework silk organza

2022

Discharge printed calico, silk organza, a photograph of my grandmother and my sister's hands

2022

Discharge printed and machine quilted calico.

2022

Discharge printed silk organza and cotton

2021

Silk organza, silk gauze, ash, dandelion seed heads

2021

Ashes of my grandmother’s saved correspondence, silk organza, the pattern of a quilt block my grandmother made

Paper pieced into twin size quilt and slept under, grief

2021

Silk gauze, glass beads, a quilt block my grandmother made

2021

Ashes of my grandmother’s saved correspondence fed into the bottle with a tiny spoon, antique glass bottle dug out of the Oklahoma salt flats, silk gauze

2020

Digitally printed and machine stitched silk organza, a fragment of conversation

2020

Silk screen on silk ribbon, digitally printed linen, glass beads, silk organza.

2021

The scissors I was using when I found out my grandmother had died, silk velvet and cotton sateen quilted on my grandmother’s sewing machine, Czech glass beads, quilting pins painted and coated in mica

2021

Glass head sewing pins, silk velvet, skin

2020

Printed and stitched silk organza book with thirty-nine pages, one for each month since my traumatic brain injury caused short and long-term memory loss, repeated phrase

2020

Various screen printed papers, glass head pins, glass beads, an awful mantra

2020

Various screen printed paper, glass head pins, glass beads

2020

43”x8”

Linen, ink, glass beads, metallic thread, pins, ink

2020

Hand cut paper, machine cut vellum, spools of thread from my grandmother