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This 16 x 20 textile titled "Melrose Streeet", was juried into Surface Design Associations Southwest Regional Exhibition.

Dates are September 30 - November 13, 2022.

The exhibit is at the Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, Arizona. The juror was Annie Lopez.

This work was created from a picture taken when I was about seven years of age. The photo was taken by the mother of two neighbor boys my brothers and I played with every day weather permitting.

The lovely part of the story is that I sent my mother a picture of the textile and she took it immediately to show Steve and Tim our neighbors pictured with myself and brothers. They had never seen the picture and did not even know that it had been taken. They were overjoyed! 

Wrapped

                          "Wrapped"

I was asked to participate in "Wrapped" a year end exhibit at Studio Channel Islands Art Center Camarillo, CA. The exhibit highlighted four artists careers in art. For myself the curator Peter Tyas selected textiles from many of my series or installations. I was very honored to be asked. He selected "Moss Beach" from my "View From Above Series". Indigo works from my "Thoughts of the Mind" Installation. "Color x 3, orange" from my "Images" series and" Water Bubbles" from the current Installation I am working on titled "Pacific Ocean".

Also slected "Drought Destruction" from my Alviso series of which I recently sold three of those textiles to a collector.

Before and After the Drought

                               Alviso, Before & After, 48h x 54w-Just Sold!

While looking at before and after the drought photographs of the Alviso Salt marshes it really jarred my sensibilities. This is my interpretation of how I felt.

This textile recently sold at The California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California  in the Art Quilts 2 exhibit!

Water Bubbles

My "Water Bubbles #1" was juried into SAQA's vitural exhibit Land Art: From the From the Forest to Your Balcony! 

The virtual exhibit will be up until the end of the year. I have been working on this project for a couple of years. Actually this project started casually by dipping fabric that was tied in the shibori method into my Indigo Bath. As many of my projects are created I can start blindly with just a feeling and the project evolves with time. I love this process as it lends itself to so much personal discovery. The total different sites I worked on probably were well over fifteen. The story behind "Water Bubbles" is a fun playful one. 

In the spring of 2021 an article I wrote about the playfulness of the inspiraion will be published.

Once the article is published I will do a update. Who knows what I will have been able to add to this project by then. Below is a detail of "Water Bubbles".