Thematically I have been exploring works that navigate the territory of the emotional deluge. Emotions and memories as the flotsam and jetsam (the cargo thrown overboard to save the ship; the cargo lost at sea) of lived experience.
Here they are tiny crochet spoons, hand printed and coffee dyed fabrics, embroidered and quilted words, elaborate checkbook cozies.
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A small taste of the deluge.
Coffee-dyed and relief printed muslin. Crochet cotton spoon. 2008-10
Coffee-dyed and relief printed muslin. Crochet cotton spoon. 2008-10
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May our great deluge rise up and wash us anew.
Hand embroidered quilt, Hand-printed cotton muslin, coffee dye. 2009-10.
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Marietta.
Hand-crochet cotton bank book from 1900. 2011-12.