Previous Works and Projects
Bead Sculpture Installations
Beaded Sky Curtain
Open Volume
Coriolis
Volume Study
Art Quilts
Parrotgrass
Fireweed
Crossing the Tanana River and its Tributaries
Reliquary Art Boxes
Covering Up a Chaotic Inner Life
My first reliquary art box, “Covering Up a Chaotic Inner Life” grew from a not entirely tongue-in-cheek desire to reconcile my meditative practice (beading) with the distractions I felt all around me.
That single journal-like prompt took on a life and series of its own. Working within the limits of a simple 9" x 7" x 6" wooden box, each new project is a self-contained little world of signs and remembrances—of a moment, a challenge, a friendship, a life…
Reliquary – a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept.
Box for Paige
Following the Paper Trail
Pond Dreams
Underneath the Huppa
Porous Borders
Waiting Behind the Curtain
Glow in the Dark Lagartija
Grazing Rights
Up the Gangplank
Vespers
Marching Orders
Waiting By the Window
La Luna del Pollo
Basic Training
100 Mirrors Series
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
When I built the first mirror in this series—the green one—“Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall…” in 1999, it felt like an exploration into a more personal realm. I used colored pencil on paper with leather, wire, glass and ceramic beads. On the back is a poem I wrote at the time, about the ongoing process of aging.
I later realized it was not the first time I had used mirrors; in fact pieces such as “Reflection Study” with mirror shards and “Seeking Serenity” were done 10 and 20 years prior. It was intriguing to find a connecting thread in my own work of which I had been unaware.
I’m still working on the mirrors… though if you count projects I’ve done with students, I’m well over 100.
Reflection Study
Seeking Solitude
To Knit Or Not to Knit
The Guitarist
The Drummer
Copper Grill
Berkeley Dumbs & Berkeley Brights
The Unbalanced Quartet: Spring
The Unbalanced Quartet: Summer
The Unbalanced Quartet: Fall
The Unbalanced Quartet: Winter
Days of the Week
Roy G Biv Vandal Mirror
Red Window
Rails to Trails
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… III
Earthworms I
Earthworms II
Earthworms III
Blue Maze
Zig Zag in Green
Frame with Yellow Zig Zag
