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	Wood Lessons 2007 24 1/2”x 20” Messages underfoot, in the remnants of autumn detail Cotton, silk, synthetics, rayon, acrylic paints, Procion dyes, Cotton floss. Fabric altered with gel prints, dyes, screen prints and hand-painting. Fused and machine-pieced. Machine-quilted and hand-embroidered.
	Threshold 2007 18”h x 14”w began with a piece of rough cotton, repeatedly printed with “forgotten” shortly after my father died of Alzheimer’s in 2001. The empty threshold appeared a couple of years later. Finally, last year, I added the images: my mother as a child, my dad as a baby, people observing a disaster, and two anonymous sisters. In 2007 I added paint and hand-stitching. The piece is finished; we must step into the unknown. Cotton, silk, synthetics, acrylic paints, Procion dyes, cotton floss, vintage photographs. Fabric altered using gel prints, gel transfers, computer printout and rubber stamps. Hand-painted, dyed, fused, machine-stitched and hand-embroidered.
	Gavotte 2007 11” x 11” Theme and variation, a dance of color and motif Cotton, silk; Fabric altered with dye, gel prints, hand and machine embroidery.
	Paths 2007 25 ”x 20” As we travel, the light that leads us is broken into shafts and particles. Often we cannot tell whether we are lost. detail Cotton, silk, synthetics, acrylic paints, Procion dyes, cotton floss. Fabric altered with gel prints, dyes, screen prints, computer printout and hand-painting. Fused and machine-pieced. Machine-quilted and hand-embroidered.
	Beyond 2007 A dream horizon, summer’s memory during winter.
	Summer 2006 Hand-dyed cotton; fused and machine appliqué. 23” x 17” Inspired by New England in August: summer light through heavy leaves Sold
	Postcards from Home 2006 Cotton, silk, vintage linen. Gel-transferred photos; thermofax print from original drawing. Hand-painted, fused appliqué and machine stitched. I brought these bits to a class one day, along with my daughter, then ten. She arranged this collage, which I later mounted and embroidered. The images look to me like messages from the past.
	Lost 2006 Screen printed, computer transfers, fused appliqué, hand-printed. 15”x12” Sometimes choice is blocked, and the journey leads to dark places. Sold
	Conversations with My Mother 2005 Cotton, tulle, silk; dyed, printed, painted, and stitched. Not only beauty gives birth to art. Love and anger, shot through with frustration, surge forward, like race horses after their jockeys have become entangled.
	Echoes 2005 Hand-dyed, fused and machine appliqué, screen-printed line drawings, hand embroidery. Linen, cotton and vintage lace. 18” x 22” Mothering is saint’s work – infinitely taxing with shots of joy. The labor repeats with each generation. We are shaped by the women who mothered us, and feel their presence even when they are gone. Detail Sold
	Angry Quilt 2005 Vintage kimono silk, cotton, and rayon. Fused, machine-stitched, and hand-embroidered. The prospect of a mastectomy produced waves of terror, denial, and grief. This piece was the result. I deliberately used crude construction. Stitches large, fabric ripped. The colors are as unforgiving as the choices I had to make. Everyone knows someone with breast cancer. No one should make the journey alone.
	MotherDaughter 2005 Hand-dyed cotton; acrylic medium transfers of original painting, drawings, newsprint, and computer printout; transfers of ArtChix Studio images; sheer synthetics; vintage, hand-dyed lace. Fused, machine stitched, printed with fabric paint. 18” x 22” Nearly 50, with a girl on the cusp of adolescence and a mother near death, I marvel at how Daughter and Mother intertwine. Which is the plant, which the trellis? We change; we grow from one to the other and yet we are also always what we have been. Detail
	Meditation 2004 Hand-dyed, fused and machine appliqué, hand embroidery. Linen, cotton, lace. 20” x 16” Walk the same path daily; it never repeats. Walk the dog each morning and you see the world change. Cold mist, rising sun; winter giving way to spring. This piece emerged while I walked through misery to the unknown. Meditation, like a pond, looks peaceful. But there is no way out of hardship except through, one step at a time.
	On My Way 2004 Hand-dyed, fused and machine appliqué, vintage lace, photo transfer. 11 ½” x 16 ¾” The horizon moves with each step, and childhood seems just a few paces in the past. This piece began at a time when my life was shredded. It began as a landscape sketch, then grew. A scrap of ribbon became a stabilizing vertical. Lace summoned lace. Finally, the photo landed like an anchor in the bottom corner. I couldn’t have been more surprised.

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