Distalation; 2017. 30 x 34 x 7. single malt scotch whiskey box, recycled fabric and thread and last of the red velvet pants, coffee stain, museum board, onion skin paper, watch face, Amsterdam cabbie card, marble, sugar.

Distalation - the extraction of the essential meaning or most important aspects of something...from afar.

being driven through the dark streets of Amsterdam...looking for it.

always looking up

always looking down

Salt Yolk; 2017. 20 x 20 x 10 cm. coffee stained recycled canvas printed with crocheted doily, thread, stuffed into a mooncake tin box.

Salt Yolk is a homonym of sorts, same sculpture with 2 different meanings.

preserved salted duck yolk is prized and is used in Chinese mooncakes to symbolize the moon...if you are lucky there will be 2 in your mooncake

salt yolk agar is used as a growth medium for Petri dish of presumptive bacteria

Shoulder; 2016. 27 x 15 x 12 cm. recycled red velvet and stuffing, thread, watch face, wax, soot, glue, gold acrylic paint.

landscape in mid step.

the shoulder joint is formed where the humerus fits into the scapula.

a hard shoulder is the emergency stopping lane of a road or motorway.

to carry or accept that you are responsible for something bad or difficult...to shoulder.

the shape, form, material, landscape, terrain, overgrowth, erosion, etc., of concept and meaning.

Comfort; 2016. 42 x 30 x 14 cm. red velvet pants, thread, wax, glue, acrylic paint.

 From the rolling hills and just up over the horizon of shape and form

to The Underbelly of Comfort.

Pistachio Island; 2016. 15 x 9 x 4 cm. plastic candy box from Greece, recycled clothes, thread.

A figment, on a whim, contagious. 

A petri of embroidery 

All on a red velvet comfy couch.

Skeleton Cloud; 2016. 33 x 43 cm. from Grandmother's stash and other recycled clothes, remnants; yarn, crocheted and toasted; machine stitched and hand quilted.

...if a cloud had a skeleton

condensed into a dehydrated chip, a bouillon of concentrated light, color, and precepitation

Skin; 2015. 94 x 28 cm. coffee and onion skin staining, fire and soot, recycled cloths, starch, thread.

Skin is about what we chose or have no choice in the matter of what we look like. It is the largest organism of the human body, our first line defense against microorganisms.

It keeps us warm. It can be caressed and lotioned, sunned or shaded, tattooed or beaten. It carries the cyclic wear and tear of life, a time lapse of age and experience, history.

As it was stained and ironed and burned and ironed the wear and tear of the concept of Skin began.

After some time, decided to graft some repair, tattoo some beauty.