Mixed media assemblages explore threads of memory, lived experience, and connections to our ancestors as a means of celebrating the narratives which we choose to carry and hold dear or release and leave behind.
The Space Between
Vintage briefcase, X-ray of artist’s face, gold leaf, quilt made of shirts from the artist’s parents and paternal grandparents
Workshop Redux
Maternal grandfather’s suitcase, rhinestone and velvet upholstered pegboard, vintage jewelry fashioned to mimic inherited tools
Indelibility
Vintage suitcase, portraits of the artist’s parents, artist’s reinterpretation of parent’s portraits, plexiglass dusted with dirt from the three houses where the portraits hung, vintage side table
port·man·teau (noun)
1. a) a large trunk or suitcase, typically made of stiff leather and opening into two equal parts b) a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms
Ad Astra Per Radicem
Vintage totecase, tumbleweed, gold leaf, layered fabric and embroidered sequins, vintage walnut christmas ornament, artist’s framed monoprint
Remnants II
Vintage suitcase, shredded and woven cloth from maternal grandmother’s couch, maternal grandparents’ and great grandparents’ jewelry, layered photo-printed fabric featuring maternal grandparents and great grandparents, vintage side table
Reliquary: Thread to the Ether
Maternal grandmother’s suitcase, mother’s jewelry box and necklaces, brass reliquaries, scabs from injuries the artist accrued, vintage side table
Attunement: The Gardeners’ Endowment
Vintage suitcase and handkerchiefs, embroidered maternal grandmother’s handkerchief, watches, thread, shredded letters, butterfly pin passed down through maternal line, vintage side table
Remnants I
Vintage suitcase, embroidered maternal grandmother’s handkerchief, maternal grandmother’s jewelry, hairbrush, and mirror, dyed cheesecloth, pennies printed in 1985, vintage side table
Of Soul and Source
Vintage suitcase, original photo of artist captured in 1998 by Ruth Moritz, glass and plastic cloches, vintage jewelry and chandelier crystals, unwoven copper wire screen, dyed cheesecloth, leaves from location of aforementioned photo, vintage side table
Echoes of Matrimony
Steamer trunk, layered photo-printed fabric, artist’s mother’s wedding dress and father’s wedding suit, bead and fabric moths, Victorian costume designed and constructed by the artist