Tangled Memories

This piece is from my two-person Tangled Memories exhibit.  The exhibit explored my experiences with my Dad's Early-Onset Alzheimer's. (He was diagnosed in his early 50's, when I was still a teenager, and died in 2000 at the age of 65).


Tangled Memories Sculpture & Detail Photograph

This piece contains images of family photos that have been printed on sheer fabric. I cut them in strips, leaving none of the images intact. These tangles of memories have been placed into a vessel, atrophied and opaque. It is symbolic of Alzheimer's-- a snarl of dead ends and detours within a shrinking vessel of obscurity.

Sculpture

Size: (h x w x d) 6" x 10" x 10"

Media: Fibers

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Framed detail photo

Size: (h x w) 14" x 14"

Media: Digital photograph

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Microbiology C-

Microbiology C- is a piece I created out of fabric that I had batiked (a fabric dying process using wax as a resist). It is a fun piece that I made by playing around with using spheres. In the end, it reminds me of the whirlwind microbiology class I took years ago during an intensive summer class, in which I didn't do so well, thus the C-!

Size: (h x w) 57" x 25"
Media: Hand dyed, batiked cotton fabric
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Speculation

Speculation was created with an image I took of Lake Macatawa in Holland, Michigan while on a walk to the beach in the winter. I overlayed a photo of steps leading up from the beach, taken during the summer. I liked the juxtaposition of two different seasons and viewpoints, seeing across the lake and not being able to visualize the destination at the end of the steps.

This piece is was on exhibit at 2nd April galerie in Canton, OH as part of the Fibernation exhibit.

Size: (h x w) 12" x 12"

Media: Fibers

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Elements of Time

Elements of Time: Water, Fire, Air, & Earth is a series that I created a couple of years ago when I was playing more with surface design on fibers. My goal was to have the pieces work together to visualize balance in a cumulative way with the parameter of using the elements. The composition of the hourglass is quite angled in the first (Water). In each successive piece, the hourglass slowly becomes more balanced-though never completely.

These pieces were recently included in the Fibernation exhibit at 2nd April galerie.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11

Media: Fibers

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Fire: SOLD

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Earth: SOLD

Fibernation

Fibernation is a fibers exhibit that I recently guest curated at 2nd April galerie. It has a diverse sampling of eleven Northeast Ohio fiber artists. The work is nontraditional and intriguing, pushing the fibers media in different ways. Buzzbin Magazine wrote a nice article about the exhibition. Check out the article...and check out the exhibition At 2nd April galerie until March 6!

Upward Mobility

Upward Mobility is constructed of two images taken in France. The background is a shot taken out of the window of our hotel room looking upward and the front layer is a photo I took inside the Grand Trianon at Versailles. I like the play of contrasts, a lavish interior juxtaposed onto a humble exterior, looking up and peering forward simultaneously.

This piece was featured in ArtsinStark promotions and was in the Stark County Artists Exhibition at the Massillon Museum. It is currently on exhibit in my studio located in 2nd April galerie at 324 Cleveland Ave. NW, Canton, OH 44702.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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The Source

The Source was created as a starting point for a maquette for a commission. (Though in the end, they wanted something more abstract, see Circuitous posting). I was playing around with the idea of metaphors for strength and what might be of encouragement to those who find themselves in a place where they need to be braced and encouraged in a trying time (as this was going to be for an ICU waiting room).

The photo was taken at Stadium Park, just down the hill from the new ICU. I overlayed the tree growing beside the water with a metallic gold tulle and metallic gold thread 'branches' flowing down to capture the notion of strength being manifested from The Source.

This piece was shown in my two-person show entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.


Size: (h x w) 21" x 18"
Media: Fibers
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Interplay

Interplay was created by painting color blocks on sheer fabric and layering it over a screen printed image of a wrought iron fence. The piece actually hangs diagonally.

This piece was shown in my two-person show entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.


Size: (h x w) 17" x 17"
Media: Fibers
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Midnight Breeze

Midnight Breeze is a new work experimenting with painting on sheer fabric. I layered the sheer over a piece of fabric that I had painted by actually blowing paint through a device to administer a fine mist of black paint over branches that I had laid on the fabric. I attempted to echo this motif with my painting on the sheer.

This piece was included in 2nd April galerie's "In the Company of Friends" exhibit.

Size: (h x w) 17" x 17"
Media:Fibers
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Dimensionality

Dimensionality is created from three different layers of sheers overlapped. I used a photograph that I had taken of a mosque in Egypt, near the Citadel. I cut out the main design into a linoleum block and printed it, then carved out more details and printed it again in a different color on a different layer, and finally carved out even more detail and then printed one more layer in a different color. I aligned the sheer layers and framed them so that it can be viewed from both the front and the back.

This piece was shown at the Massillon Museum's Stark County Artists Exhibit and in my two-person show entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.


Size: (h x w) 16" x 13"
Media: Fibers
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Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing was created by fusing an image from a hallway in the Grand Trianon in Versailles with a shot I took of a humble lantern on a hotel in Charlottesville, VA. I wanted to emphasize the light coming through the window and the shadow of the lantern to suggest the idea of foreshadowing of time, ambitions, and the future.

This piece was shown in my two-person show entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.

Size: (h x w) 12" x 12"
Media: Fibers
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Revelation

Revelation was created with two separate images. The back layer is a photo transfer of a photograph that I took of an outer hallway of the al Fateh Mosque in Bahrain. The front sheer overlay is of a pathway through the trees at the Genessee Monastery in New York. I particularly love how the foreground of both images work together to draw the viewer in.

This piece was part of my solo show entitled NEXT at the Massillon Museum in 2008-9.

Size: (h x w) 11" x 14"
Media: Fibers
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Looming

Looming was created from a photograph I had taken in Bahrain, looking west over the gulf toward a beautiful sunset over Saudi Arabia. Despite the political turmoil in the region at the time, there was such a sense of peace in that view, in that moment, out on a dock with my son.

In general, I tend to view sunsets as a bookend to the day. They loom at the end of daylight and signal a sense of closure, marking an end. I chose to juxtapose this beautiful sunset with an image of a barren tree branch with vultures subtly flying amongst the branches. This was not intended to be morbid, rather it was a visual exploration of the idea that The End of one's journey may very well be brimming with beauty, just like the sunset.

The tree branch photo was taken at the Raccoon Creek State Park in Pennsylvania. The photograph of the vultures was taken at a lake near Hocking Hills, Ohio.

This piece was part of my solo show entitled NEXT at the Massillon Museum in 2008-9.

Size: 12" x 12"
Media: Fibers
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Ambition

Ambition was created with a photo sensitive fabric. A transparency of a photograph I had taken of the Eiffel Tower was laid on the fabric and then exposed by the sun. I really enjoyed the process and would like to play with it more in the near future. I chose to place an overlay of steps from Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio to help portray a sense of drive or ambition.

This piece was part of my solo exhibit entitled NEXT at the Massillon Museum and in a group show entitled fabric-ations at Malone University's McFadden Gallery.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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Navigation

Navigation was created with a sheer overlay of an image of a compass, taken on a boat in Maine. The back layer is an archway at The Citadel, in Egypt. I sought to visually portray the reality of the unknown that lies ahead on the journey.

This piece was part of my solo exhibit entitled NEXT at the Massillon Museum.

Size: (h x w) 12" 12"
Media: Fibers
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The Wait

The Wait was constructed from an overlay of photo I took of a gargoyle on the top tower of Notre-Dame, in Paris. I was very drawn to the bored posture of the sculpture, as if tired of waiting and perhaps not even sure for what it is waiting. I used an image of a cloudy sky taken in Pittsburgh for the back layer to provide an imminent context for the gargoyle.

This piece was part of my solo show entitled NEXT at the Massillon Museum and in a group show entitled fabric-ations at Malone University's McFadden Gallery.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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Options

Options was created from a photograph I took near Marie Antoinette's Hamlet in Versailles, France. I happened upon the secluded bridge while taking a quiet walk with my husband. I found it so beautiful and inviting, its aged-looking structure (probably reconstructed?) just seemed to evoke a sense of history. I overlayed a sheer image of trees and a path, from the Genessee Monastery in New York, to help reinforce the intrigue.

This piece was a part of my solo show entitled NEXT which was exhibited at the Massillon Museum in 2008-9.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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Simultaneous

Simultaneous was created from a phototransfer of an image taken of an abandoned looking bridge at the Gethsemane Monastery in Kentucky. The timelessness of the alpha and omega symbolism on the bridge was an intriguing contrast to it's aging, deteriorating, overgrown setting. Threads are stitched along the branches within the image and flow onto the mattboard surrounding it within the frame. It has a companion piece, Eternal, which features a Chi- Rho carved into the other side of the bridge.

This piece was exhibited at Malone University in 2009, at 2nd April galerie's The View From Here show, and in my two-person show entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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Eternal

Eternal was created from an image that I took of a crumbling old bridge while on a hike at the Gethsemane Monastery in Kentucky. I was particularly drawn to the overgrown setting in which it sat, seemingly forgotten. There is a companion piece, Simultaneous, that features the other side of the bridge. A sheer overlay of trees from the Genessee Monastery was integrated to give the dimension of time and space. A Chi- Rho symbol or Christogram is incised into the stone of the bridge. This symbol was used long ago and incorporated the first two Greek letters of Christ's name.

This piece was exhibited at Malone University in 2009 and was shown in my two-person show, entitled Sheer Obscurity, at The Little Art Gallery in North Canton, OH.

Size: (h x w) 14" x 11"
Media: Fibers
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Continuum

Continuum was created as an attempt to visually explore time, progression, and digression. This work has one opaque layer and two sheer layers of a balloon at different stages or sizes. Depending on your perspective, the balloon is either inflating or deflating. To me it is a continuum containing both perspectives.

This piece was exhibited at Gallery 6000 in 2009.

Size: (h x w) 12" x 12"
Media: Fibers
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