Caught in the Crosshairs
Banned titles written in graphite around the edges.
Read Reed
Removed and Canceled, CHS 1981
Honors my first personal experience of censorship. when my high school library removed the January 1981 Rolling Stone Magazine due to its cover of a naked John Lennon and clothed Yoko Ono.
Banning in Bad (I’m working on a better series title.)
Pieces done in reaction to some local school board candidates endorsing banning books.
Up-cycled thrift store handkerchief dyed with eucalyptus in iron, dyed wool, wax and graphite.
In Honor of
Freddie Gray,
George Floyd
and way to many others
The unnecessary deaths of black men must be acknowledged and stopped.
The material is the message. There are many shades but one dye, black walnut. Modifications to the dye environment changed the appearance of the wool like modification in the earth’s environment changed evolution. When the dye bath was modified, the color of the textile changed but it is still merino wool and still black walnut dye. Human appearance is adapted to a particular environment, color and form may change but we’re still humans. Many different kinds of people but one humanity.
Pieced merino wool dyed in 1 vat of black walnut dye., Linen, Wood
September 2020
In situ at “Impact 2022: Art that Bears Witness, Bethany Art Center, Osining NY, 2022.
photographs on either side by nia Simone
Elegy for We the People
The Covid 19 pandemic by the numbers.
Merino Wool, Rayon Silk Velvet, Cotton bundle dyed with iron and eucalyptus, naturally dyed with walnut, Linen, Cotton/Poly Thread
October 2020
Is Anybody Out There?
About Isolation during the pandemic.
Found metal, blank porcelain chips made by Kirsten Olson, graphite, eucalyptus dyed silk and wool. November 2021
Sea Rising: 1” every 7.7 years
Climate change.
Repurposed yarn from closed carpet factory, home grown indigo, shattered safety glass, repurposed steel armature. September 2022
Color is off in this image.
T-shirts in Quarantine, To experience the passage of time and ground one in the present.
Science Series
“Forest for the Trees II”
Merino wool, Maple Flowers, Linen. Wood
57” x 8”
Conflagration
Merino Wool, Maple Leaves, Iron, Linen, wood
22” x 34.75”
