![]() That predilection carried me through my years as a textile student and lives with me today as I engage in creating layered and compulsive surfaces that refer to my heightened sensitivity to time and balance. My teenaged years were spent engaged in hand embroidery, marking the beginning of my love for repetitive and additive art making. Our shared, once a year journey through my Grandmother's linen chest was pure magic to me because I got to touch the handmade bobbin lace and embroidered cloth, smell the cedar and hear stories connected to part of my heritage. I still love the smell of fabric stores and find great comfort in being surrounded by bolts of cloth. It was then that I learned about the nuances of cloth, the subtleties of woven color and the "hand" of fabric. I am in some way exploring the design archetype of checker- boarding, or the mathematical term of "half spaces," in each of the pieces to further reinforce the textile quality of the work.Īs a child I spent many hours in fabric stores with my Mother. I work hard at pushing the surfaces of my work so that they are obscure, prompting questions about process, materials and time. In place of textiles I create lines and texture with a pastry bag as I extrude acrylic medium to make surfaces that evoke fabric or enlarged weaves. The grids, both visible and structural, and the repetition within each piece are inherent to the most basic levels of textile creation. My works are rooted in my textile training. In-Between #3, fabric, acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, 20 x 20 x 2 inches, 2015. Seen/Unseen, fabric, sewing, acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, 36 x 48 x 3 inches, 2014. In-Between #2, fabric, acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, 20 x 20 x 2 inches, 2015. Quietly Observed, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, 36 x 48 x 3 inches, 2016. The Embrace, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, 13 x 12 x 2 inches, 2016. Just Under the Surface, acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, balsa wood, 24 x 36 x 1.5 inches, 2020. Up, Over and Around, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, balsa wood, wood burning, 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches, 2019. ![]() Landscape, acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, balsa wood, 11 x 14 x 1.5 inches, 2019. ![]()
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