Rebound
2020 Size: 43”h x 30”w Price: $2500
Heavy shapes, dense colors. Lockdowns of 2020. Lives under duress, we strive to move on. Hoping to emerge from Covid-19 pandemic, we imagine our dearly-hoped-for upward rebound.
Materials: cottons, batting, texturing threads.
Shows: “Radical Regeneration” exhibition at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 2022; “New Quilts of Northern California” display at the Pacific International Quilt Festival, 2021.
Sideways - Torii Gate
2020 Size: 98”h x 47”w Price: $5000
Divided into our private lives, different colors, shapes and symbols. Our regular routines knocked sideways. Quarantined, separated from our lives, our friends, ourselves. We try to express this tough situation. I begin by framing this quilt as a Japanese tori gate. As a tori gate symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred, it is an appropriate image as we enter a contemplative time and place during lockdown.
Shows: given a Gold Award at NOOBAA 2023 at 3 Square Art gallery show in Fort Collins, juried by David Reif.
Contagion 1
2020 Size: 94” h x 34” w SOLD
In “Contagion” shapes intersect one another, collide and splay out, expressing our fears of contagion. Looming shapes meet those cut up into smaller, complicated pieces. Bold black blocks meet whites with germ-like graphics. The stark black and white world is shot through with wriggling white and gold threads. Julia Bryan-Wilson, in her book “Fray” asked “Do textiles emerge with intensity in times of disaster?” Her answer is that they “live at the edge of crises,” in the fray. “Contagion” is the edge.