MIXED MEDIA

ARRIVAL

5 x 8.5"

Collage and stitching, Transfer Print on Indigo-Dyed Paper

Collage and stitching, transfer print on indigo-dyed paper. 5 x 8.5

ASHORE

5 x 8.5"

Colored Pencil, Transfer Print on Indigo-Dyed Paper

colored pencil and transfer print on indigo dyed paper. 5 x 8.5

ASHORE 2

5 x 8.5"

Colored Pencil, Transfer Print on Indigo-Dyed Paper

Transfer print and colored pencil on indigo-dyed paper. 5 x 8.5

FOUND

5 x 8.5"

Colored Pencil on Indigo-Dyed Paper

Colored pencil on indigo dyed paper. 5 x 8.5

FOUND 2

5 x 8.5"

Colored Pencil on Indigo-Dyed Paper

Colored pencil on indigo dyed paper. 5 x 8.5

POPPIES

Block Print, Indigo-Dyed Papers, Ink, Stitching

Block print, indigo dyed papers, ink, stitching

ARRAY

8 x 10"

Colored Pencil, Wax on Board

colored pencil and wax on board, 8 x 10

EROSIONAL REMAINS SERIES

5 x 5"

Ink, Colored Pencil, Wax

KINVARA - SURFACE & STRUCTURE 1

6 x 6"

Image Transfer, Encaustic

Kinvara, Surface and Structure 1, image transfer and encaustic, 6 x 6"

KINVARA - SURFACE & STRUCTURE 2

6 x 6"

Image Transfer, Encaustic

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KINVARA - SURFACE & STRUCTURE 3

6 x 6"

Image Transfer, Encaustic

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KINVARA - THROUGH THE GLASS

6 x 8"

Image Transfer, Encaustic

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KINVARA - PRESENT TENSE

8 x 10"

Image Transfer, Encaustic

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MIGRATORY PATTERN 1

24 x 24" - SOLD

Image Transfers on Dyed Papers, Thread

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MIGRATORY PATTERN 2

24 x 24" - SOLD

Image Transfers on Dyed Papers,
Sticks, Thread

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER

24 x 32" - SOLD

Paper Kimono with Indigo Dyed Paper,
Ink, Thread

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Pieces from the
AFTER IMAGE EXHIBITION

October 2- October 30, 2015

After Image exhibition announcement 2015

NOTICE EVERY LIVING THING

7 x 20" - SOLD

Mixed Media

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ALL IN ALL

24 x 24"

Image Transfers on Handmade Papers, Hand-Lettered Text

All in All - 16 panels, handmade paper, photo transfer with text

CHRISTINE 1953

10 x 32"

Image Transfers on Mulberry Papers with Stitching

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SUSAN AT 14

10 x 38"

Image Transfers on Mulberry Papers with Stitching

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SUSAN AT 16

10 x 32"

Image Transfers on Mulberry Papers with Stitching

crop_Susan_at_16

THREE WEDDINGS 1958-60

12 x 42" - SOLD

Image Transfers on Hand-dyed Mulberry Papers, Encaustic

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MARGIE AS A BRIDE 1961

12 x 18"

Image Transfers, Colored Pencils, Hand-lettered Text

crop_margie_as_a_bride

DISTANT CONVERSATION 1

7 x 12"

Image Transfers, Indigo-dyed Papers, Encaustic, Letterpress, Stitching, Gold Leaf

Distant Conversation 1, image transfers, indigo-dyed papers, encaustic, letterpress, stitching, gold leaf, 7 x 12"

DISTANT CONVERSATION 3

7 x 12"

Image Transfers, Indigo-dyed Papers, Collage, Letterpress, Stitching

Distant Conversation 3, image transfers, indigo-dyed papers, collage, letterpress, stitching, 7 x 12"

FORTUNE SEEKER

10 x 12"

Image Transfers, Indigo-dyed Papers, Colored Pencils, Hand-lettered Text

image transfers on indigo-dyed paper, colored pencil, hand-lettered text, 10 x 12

HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN, HOW HIGH IS THE SKY?

18 x 24"

Image Transfers on Varied Papers, Hand-lettered Text

Image transfers on varied papers, hand-lettered text, 18 x 24

ONLY YOU

16 x 24"

Image Transfers, Encaustic, Letterpress

image transfers, encaustic, letterpress, 16 x 24"

WHEN WE WERE

22 x 28"

image transfers, hand-dyed papers, Letterpress, Encaustic, Stitching

image transfers, hand-dyed papers, letterpress, encaustic, stitching, 22 x 28

A LONG WAY HOME

10 x 32"

Image Transfers on Mulberry Papers, Indigo-dyed papers, Letterpress, Cine Colle

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Artists Statement - "THROUGH THE PAST" Series

Featured in an exhibit at Ninth Wave Studio in late 2020

On Thursday, March 12, I left the campus of Kalamazoo Valley Community College, where I teach Art and Humanities courses, and, like everyone else, had no idea when –or if—any of us would be together in the classroom again.

So different than a long weekend made possible by inclement weather . . . day by day the realization that this wasn’t going away. The news and views. Reportage. Phone calls, texting, zooming. Listening to the echoes in my beautiful rooms, now museum-like, of a recent dinner party, “let’s do this more”! “We should get together more often!”

A last dinner out with friends on that Friday—the 13th; the restaurant already only half full on a typically packed Friday night--and no music on the empty stage.

The curtain was lowering as I crossed off plans, appointments, trips, workshops, gatherings made ahead of time; the future illegible now. Can’t read it. 

Rewrote the curriculum. Got busy. Noticed the fabric of my life, so tightly woven and lovely, unraveling.

How to re-weave a life so rich? Knowing that the effort will have to be undone, redone, re-invented over and over. What is habitual? What is meaningful? Daily life and its comfortable rhythm of pattern and repetition becomes intentional practice.

Surprisingly, the relationship with each and every one of my students took on an intimacy not quite possible in the rocking and rolling classroom environment. All quiet now: “here’s my assignment”, and “my life is. . . I hope you are ok. . . I miss our class. . . here’s a link to listen to, to watch. . .” Grief and appreciation. 

Spring. I walked the streets of my city daily --and early, as the light was leading us into longer days. Stepping over puddles, glancing at my reflection there, and in the shuttered windows, feeling the breeze as I passed through air—refreshingly clear, the chicken scratching in Bobby’s yard, the chartreuse shoot of an emerging flower, the birdsong—constant, the geese—slowing their crossing near the ponds. Why rush?

Fragments. Moments. A question--what is available to me now? Scraps of material leftover from bigger ideas, “serious” work—"use what you have” as a daily practice, “move material” (something I tell my students). 

 Intentional—yet random, each collage was a little conversation with myself, a deep dive into memory, a kind of meditation, a daily prayer until I finally tired of the ritual and moved on. At some point I added them up, like playing cards, sorted, grouped and arranged. At last count there were 65. 

If I had considered a “magic” number to coincide with my 65 students who moved through the end of the semester with me--our COVID Spring-- or the 65th year I aged into in May, my ritual would have been a plan. 

What will we become? We can be our own best teachers in this reflective moment.

THROUGH THE PAST

21 x 70"

Mixed Media

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THROUGH THE PAST 2

8 x 32"

Mixed Media

Mixed-Media-Isolation-Spring-2

THROUGH THE PAST 3

8 x 40"

Mixed Media

Mixed-Media-Isolation-Spring-3

THROUGH THE PAST 4

8 x 32"

Mixed Media

Mixed-Media-Isolation-Spring-4