Watercolor sketch of the lighthouse at Copper Harbor, MI 2020
Watercolor
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Acrylic.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Watercolor.
Acrylic
Watercolor and gauche.
Charcoal
Pencil Sketch Digitized Color
Embroidered Textile Art Lanscapes
Oil and mixed media | glass, string, wood
One of 24 in a series.
Gouache, acrylic, collage
Gouache, acrylic, and collage
Gouache, acrylic and collage
Acrylic, collage, ink and pencil
Fabric, collage and acrylic
Painted washi papers, fabric, stitching, found lace and snail shells.
Egg Tempera
Watercolor and Gouache
Study for an icon. Pencil on toned paper.
Pencil Drawing
Study for an Icon. Pencil on toned paper.
Digital
Pencil sketch with digital color.
Digital
Digital
Digital
Acrylic and Fabric Banners
The projects found on this page were completed for non-profit organizations: The first set is a Donor Wall for St Casimir Parish in Lansing Michigan. The second set is an assemblage with glass mosaic and found objects completed for the non-profit Firecracker Foundation in Lansing Michigan.
This piece was created for the Firecracker Foundation: Soulfire Gala 2018. The piece was inspired by the story of a sexual assault surviver with whom I was paired.
“The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.” This line from Hemmingway expresses the central message of this piece and the universal message of strength and hope that can arise from an experience of sexual trauma. The old windows and cracked cement floor tell of tragedy, brokenness, and vulnerability . . . trespassed innocence now locked away. The saturated red interior and explosion of glass in the mosaic speaks of a bold hope and healing …“forged by fire” into newness.
As I spoke with the surviver, read her poetry and listened to her journey, I was reminded of the Japanese tradition of Kintsukuroi, the art of piecing together broken pots with melted gold. Through this technique, strength and beauty restore that which might otherwise be discarded or abndoned. Likewise, in this piece, the broken sections of the cement foundation are filled with a mosaic of colorful broken glass, transforming brokenness into beauty. In the final step of this creation, I burned excerpts from her poem, ‘Forged by Fire,’ into the top edges of the window frames. The words express her sustained struggle over time and, like a ‘match to kerosene,’ her breaking forth into a new place of hope and strength. This work of art attempts to tell this surviver’s story and offers hope for all surviver’s that they may be strong at the broken places.
Materials: old windows, cut glass mosaic, cement, locks/latches and hinges.
