Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

2024
42"h x 29"w x 10"d

Pete Seeger’s Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is known as an anti-war protest song. In creating this artwork I was thinking about the loss of the innocence, beauty, and vitality of nature as humanity claims more and more of the earth for unsustainable purposes. What does it make you think of?

Materials: willow, unryu paper, crochet thread, hemp cord

Techniques: basketry, needlelace, knotting, stitching

Ubi Sunt

2024
28"h x 20"w x 9"d

A meditation on the transience of all things and the circle of life.

Materials: Vine, willow, paper pulp, kozo, yarn

Techniques: papermaking, knotted netting, tying

Shrine to Gaia

2024
36"h x 22"w x 5" d

As you wander through the forests, meadows, beaches, marshes, and mountains, give thanks to Gaia for this precious earth.

Materials: branch, birch bark, willow, handmade paper, crochet thread, linen yarn, waxed linen thread, glue, nails

Techniques: papermaking, stitching, interlacing, drilling, nailing, gluing

Fundament

2024
29"h x 24"w x 1.5" d

What’s fundamental to you?

Materials: clothesline, t-shirt yarn, fiber reactive dyes

Techniques: cloverleaf base, twining, triple twining, wrapping, braiding, stitching, dyeing