Paper Work

This image depicts that feeling in your throat when you learn something incredibly hard about someone you love. That feeling of detachment from reality as your emotions and your mind try to make sense of the unthinkable. 56″ x 61″ Sewing Pattern Papers, Fabric, Thread, Toole, and Ink

Lithographers Crayon, Ink, Thread and Fabric on Sewing Pattern Paper 65″ x 54″ In between this piece and another, I was agitated while having to consider the “Male Gaze” in my work. As a figure artist who works with female nudes based on self-portraits I was perplexed once again by having to consider the work

Lithographers Crayon, Ink, Straight Pins, Thread and Sewing Pattern Paper 64″ x 54″ A resting figure can seem to be vulnerable, but many of us have developed defenses that do not evaporate during exposure. Few of us have managed a life without trauma or strife. Universally, our bodies have ways of reacting to and surviving

Lithographers Crayon, Graphite, Ink and thread on Sewing Pattern Paper 57″ x 49″ After scribbling away on upholstery patterns for a while, I began to notice that I always return to the figure. As abstract as I thought the drawings were, I would find something figurative and pull it out of the drawing. Sometimes when

The back panel of this piece was the first drawing I made with the patterns I found from my box of memorabilia that has traveled with me from home to home. I was in a frame of mind of remembering my childhood home, and the patterns reminded me of my Mom and her upholstery business