"PAST LIVES"
1998Click on the photos to view a full size version!
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"PAST LIVES"
1998
Pieced recycled handwoven mohair, rayon, cotton, and metallic; inkle woven trim; digital images on Lamé; trimmed and lined in recycled Persian Lamb; adapted from workshop "Jacket" pattern
"WILD
THINGS: TAME OR UNTAMED?"
1998
Recycled handwoven alpaca and wool with
digital images on cotton; recycled fox heads and animal fur trim and
lining; jingle shells; adapted from workshop "Jacket" pattern
"IN
MEMORIAM"
1999
Pieced,
recycled handwoven rayon, cotton, and silk. Piecing trimmed in raw silk,
collar and armhole bands trimmed in sheepskin; cotton chambray lining;
appropriated digitally altered images; beads; adapted from workshop
"Jacket" pattern
Text reads: After varsity cheerleading, Deanne went on to marry her high school football hero and become Miss April 1976. It was the highlight of her life. By 30 she was divorced. By 40 she was dead from Breast Cancer. In Memoriam 1955-1995
"THE
VICTIM"
2001
Pieced recycled handwoven fabric of wool, rayon, cotton, and metallic; lace; crystal drops, digital image transfers, adapted from a Burda pattern
"The
Victim”, is about men and women, all of us who have allowed ourselves to
become victims of others, victims of ourselves and our own toxic behaviors,
victims of society and a culture that defines who we should be and does not
accept who we are. I saw the most beautiful spider web early one morning
stretched between the spindles of the deck railing. It was glistening with
the morning dew. It was so fragile yet exquisite in it’s iridescence.
Many things that lure us in are actually traps. We get caught in the
trappings of life and become victims so easily. Once inside it is very
difficult to escape. The spider is often used by many cultures as the
original weaver or lacemaker, creating something so unique it can’t be
duplicated. I love the analogy and used it here, juxtaposed to the concept
of the spider waiting for her victim to become trapped in her web.
"EVOLUTION"
2002
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Shaft Shadow Weave (Weaver's Spring '99) handwoven of rayon and acrylic, inkle woven bands,
silkscreened polyester lining (from a graduate surface design class in 1979);
adapted from workshop "Vest" pattern
This garment appeared in Handwoven Magazine, Issue 111, September/October 2002, "Designing from the Stash"
"EMBEDDED
FILES" 2004
Handwoven
Plain Weave, mohair, rayon, cotton, and silk. Digital Images, printed on
treated cotton, stripped and rewoven on cotton ground using Theo
Moorman technique. Original pattern.
"
WATCHING DEATH COME" 2007 13" x
9"
Digital print from an original drawing, on treated silk, cut into strips, rewoven in an inlay technique with a cotton ground and a rayon tie-down thread.
"MARGARET"
2008 9 1/2" x 10" x 4"
Digital inkjet prints on treated silk, cut into strips, rewoven in an inlay technique with a cotton ground and a rayon tie-down thread. Bamboo.
"CUT"
2007 18 1/2" x 11 1/2"
Digital print from an original drawing, on treated silk, pieced and appliquéd onto wool/rayon, machine stitched, cut into strips, rewoven in an inlay technique with a cotton ground and a rayon tie-down thread.
"SURVIVOR"
2008 12" x 9"
Original photo, digital inkjet print on treated silk, cut into strips, rewoven in an inlay technique with a cotton ground and a rayon tie-down thread.
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