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each body of doily work opens in its own browser

<<< these drawings were made for Couplets - a show with Aurora Robson. We actually made work meant to hang together. In these drawings I took the molecular structures of environmental toxins and rendered them using doilies. An attempt to turn something ugly and horrible into something beautiful. See install shots of the show here.		<<<< when I started drawing doilies I realized that en masse they reminded me of internal organs.... these doily body drawings represent the 4 things I think you need to make art: your lungs, heart, brain, and guts.
	<<<< other misc. doily drawings


watch me paint a doily - a little movie here


^^ watch a video of me talking about this robot pile + other stuff - generated by the San Jose Museum of Art

each body of rifle target work opens in it's own browser window

	<<< in this series I mended targets that had been shot - each target uses a different colorway and a different stitch. in some ways this is my attempt to overcome and "correct" a situation that frightens me.
<<<<in this series I painted small pieces of rifle targets with watercolor depictions of plants that can be use to stop bleeding, or are helpful in wound care		<<<<in this series I cozied the target to render it harmless, or I sewed a pattern on top of the pattern to emphasize the decorative nature of the target
<<<<in this series I wanted to talk about gun usage. In thinking about hunting I wanted to depict the animals in a traditional manner - the silhouette, but in an untraditional colorway. on each target one animal is placed where a shot on the target would be fatal. each animal is also outlined by a series of pinholes - the act of sewing without its mending capabilities		<<<<these are slightly larger target pieces - thinking of the idea of "quilting" them together

each body of thread drawing work opens in it's own browser window

		<<<< after doing a series of anonymous girl portraits showing the backside of the embroidery, I decided I should do a series of self-portraits. So I used 10 years of wallet sized photos of myself [and one with my family] and included the features.
		<<<< interested in the masculine/feminie aspect of war machines, I wanted to make polka dotted planes. these are machine stitched since they are machines.

<<< these cupcake drawings were part of a larger installation that Tara Goe and I did at Mama Buzz Cafe entitlted "I Want Sugar". These seemingly sweet cupcakes are decorated with poisonous flowers. You can see shots of the entire installation - our fake cupcake shop - here.