About

My fabric collages were originally designed to be jewelry.  They were meant to be constructed out of wire and copper, inlaid with colorful enamel, then turned into pendants, earrings and brooches.  But the pandemic (and the cancelled craft fairs, closed schools and everything else that came with it) changed where, when and how I was able to work/create/make.  While stuck at home I re-discovered some forgotten bins of hand-dyed fabric that I had made during my years as a quilt-maker, way back in the 90s.  I could work with fabric without needing to be in a studio with the torches and safety equipment.   It also seemed everyone was focused on decorating the homes that we were all stuck in instead of decorating ourselves with jewelry and getting all dressed up when there was nowhere to go.  

No matter what medium I work with, I seem to gravitate towards the same methods: physically rearranging materials next to one another until I find color combinations that are unexpected and interesting; a focus on hand work that's more about repetition than precision; and I always work with abstract designs, where the construction and materials are as important as the image created.  These latest compositions seem to grow on their own - and meander between different levels of geometric and organic, patterned and random, symmetrical and off-kilter.  The goal is to allow them to be either or both at the same time, not get in the way with what I think they "should" look like, and let it change from day to day and from piece to piece.