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Between the Fences
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED GRAPE VINE TENDRILS

CROPS GROW BETWEEN THE FENCES.  IN SUPPORT OF FARMERS EVERYWHERE.

20"X28" UNFRAMED ELSE MOUNTED ON GREEN SILK IN A 32`X36`FRAME

2012 DECEMBER

   

 

 
Plant Four Fields
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED HYDRANGEA FLOWER AND KNOTTED FIBRES.

Fly over these fields and tame the aubergine.

18"x28" unframed

2013


 

 
Growing Soup
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED HYDRANGEA FLOWER AND GRAPE VINE TENDRILSKNOTTED FIBRES, SILKS, WOOLS.

FRAMED ON YELLOW SILK

24X36"

2012


 


 

 
Artifacts: Memories in Fields
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ARTIFACTS: MEMORIES IN FIELDS

HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED HYDRANGEA FLOWERS, SILK ROPES AND HEMP BARK.

18"X18" UNFRAMED

2012

Detail of the swirling silk.  This felt is meant to symbolize the artifacts of the land - the faint passages of small feet, ancient waterways, former buffalo wallows, higher hills.  Process, animals and plants that left their mark now only faintly visible.

 

 
Up Hill, Down Dale
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED PEACOCK FEATHER - POINTY HILL TOP WITH SMOOTH GREEN FIELDS ON EITHER SIDE

Reframed on linen covered canvas 30"x36"

2010


 

 
Desertification
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HANDMADE WOOD AND SILK FELT WITH
EMBEDDED BARK, KATALPA POD AND TEA LEAVES

BOUNDARY WHERE DROUGHT PREVAILS

17.5" X 27"

2009

Detail showing the embedded katalpa pod and bark bracelets

 
Commission: Table Runner Yellow Field
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Handmade wool and silk felt table runner with fibre embeds.

2011

12" x 41"

A commission


 

 
Field -Take a Note
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED COCOONS, KNITTING AND A BIRCH BARK BRACELET.  A TRAIL OF NOTES AND SCRIBBLES IS PUNCTUATED WITH AN AFRICAN PORCUPINE QUILL.

22"X36" FRAMED

2010

Selected for the De rerum natura (On The Nature of Things) exhibition, World of Threads Festival, a Common Thread International exhibition in November. www.worldofthreadsfestival.com

 

Detailed view of cocoons

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Plant an Orchard
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED DRAGON PEARL TEA LEAVES

23"X31"

2010


 

 
Plant a Field: I'll Hold Your Coat
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED COCOONS AND DRAGON PEARL TEA LEAVES

22" x 36"

2009

(SOLD)

 

 

Detail showing fibres


 

 
Journaling the Vines
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT
WITH EMBEDDED BIRCH BARK,
HYDRANGEA FLOWERS, COCOONS,
GRAPE VINE TENDRILS FROM PELEE ISLAND

20"X36" FRAMED

2010

(SOLD)

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