A solo show at Whitespace Gallery
September 6 - October 19, 2019
The exhibit is about the history of place and time and myself inside of it. The work is imagined in a dream state divided between two worlds in which I can locate myself comfortably in neither. Herein are the spaces between beauty and terror and my questions of past and recent loss. These are poems and songs of farewell to the departed and a celebration of second chances, mine and the ones that are gone. In the objects, are ghosts of a past life and shadows of what might have been.
horsehair and cotton
67 x 59 x 6 inches
Detail of Free Animal
white clay and cotton
125 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches
Detail of Prayers
root, pigment, and silk thread
15 x 12 x 9 inches
Detail of Catch
hand dyed horsehair
28 x 26 x 4 inches
Detail of Mortal Coil
Handmade silk rope, handspun silk organza, wool felt, mushroom dye
Detail of Elemental
root, Georgia red clay, cotton thread
32 x 16 x 11.5 inches
horsehair, hand dyed cotton
48 x 28 x 4 inches
horsehair, cotton, silk, palm fiber, paper yarn and mixed media
126 x 9 x 9 inches
83 x 9 x 10 inches
cotton, wool, mohair, silk, linen, snake bones, crow bones
58 x 26 x 4 inches
Detail of Ultima Thule
reclaimed piano wood, crow bone, cotton, gourd
24 x 8.5 x 1 inches
reclaimed piano wood, cotton, sterling silver, fox toe bones
8 x 4 x 3 inches
Hand dyed wool felt, hand spun yarn, hand dyed yarn, silk, horsehair, cotton rope, paint, gourds, feathers, red headed parrot finch and mixed media
50 x 144 x 12 inches
One of the many things that were added to the sculpture during the exhibit..the gift of a red -headed parrotfinch.
Every time I came to the gallery I would add something to the sculpture for the duration of the exhibit. Crow feathers, black acorns, my own hair …some things I hid just for myself.
I collected sounds and collaborated with the artist JD Walsh for a sound scape to accompany the show.
The gallery is constructed from a Victorian horse and carriage house from the 19th century.
The sounds I collected reflected the history of the space and the sounds around me at the studio at the time of preparing the work for this exhibit.