Do you remember the thrill of getting a new game?
Setting up the board, the playing pieces and reading the rules.
The delight of this game is that the rules are part of the board.
As you study the board, you learn the rules of the game.
Honorable Mention in “(un)Common Threads” Exhibition at Carlisle Arts Center, 38W Pomfret St, Carlisle, PA, 2022
Oh, what a release!
Getting caught up in a game!
Reality recedes.
Only players’ movements exist.
Solitaire is a game that lends itself to the isolation that COVID provided. The need to restrict movement resulted in the need to create a space where I had control. The rules in play were incorporate Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. 13 into a 12” width. The bright colors of nature must balance the shades of gray in my thoughts. It must balance no matter which side is up.
Displayed virtually: DC/MD/WV SAQA Regional Exhibition, Imagination 1 x 4, Blackrock Center for the Art, Germantown, MD, January 2020
Displayed in-person: Out of the Funk, Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA, May 7 - May 23, 2021
National Archives:
Early dreams and ideas; preserved in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.
Circles captured inside squares on the stone floor; becoming the sky.
Displaying the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
Look up at the building. It is so important!
Roman dignity, with the first three words in the Constitution, “We the People”.
Published in “Inspired by the Nation’s Capital, A Fiber Art Souvenir of Washington, DC” by Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto - pages 124 & 125. Available for purchase.
What Would Vincent Do?
Vincent van Gogh became an artist to express himself and his world. Having two loves, painting and nature, he was a simple man with a gentle heart. His colors expressed the light and colors he witnessed with emphasis.
I have returned to a favorite place, my parent’s farm. Here the light has a filtered purity, reflected in the use of tulle stretched across clouds, and majesty, best witnessed early in the morning. Expressed with emphasis, light is tracked through the sky in dissipating concentric curves and reflected in the water with loose threads.
Finalist in Cherrywood Hand-Dyed Fabric “Van Gogh Challenge”, 2017 - Toured across U.S., Canada & France
"Shooting the Moon" is an idiom that Urban Dictionary suggests means “Attempting the near-impossible.”
When I thought of this phrase, the mental image of a hand throwing dice at the moon materialized instantly. In the next moment, I completed the target with a crescent moon as the center and a stone Moon Gate framing the moon and night sky.
Constructed for the “Fly Me to the Moon” Competition, 2015.
Published in “Fly Me to the Moon: An Art Quilt Journey” book by Susanne Miller Jones, 2017.
I added a “Wicked Twist” to classic tales involving wicked attitude.
The twister has moved across the Kansas countryside—but it picked up more than Dorothy’s house.
You will also find Snow White’s apple, the Queen of Heart’s crown, a spindle from Sleeping Beauty, cherries from Repunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, a gingerbread man from Hansel and Gretel, and the red rose that is involved in so many tales.
The irregular quilting lines in the twister reflect the irregularity of the twister and its motion.
Semi-Finalist in the Cherrywood “Wicked” Challenge, 2014
Entry in “Art Quilts XIX: Seriously Humorous” at Vision Gallery in Chandler, AZ, 2016
