(2-piece floor sculpture) Media: recycled metal, plaster, acrylic paint Dimensions: 66" height, 14" width, 9" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
A Cow Takes a Stand
(pedestal sculpture) Dimensions: 3.5" height, 15" depth, 15" width Media: Paper, my hair, landscape felt, domesticated bird feathers, fabric, thread, homemade dye from vegetables and fruit, Maya blue pigment, wood, diluted acrylic paint for wood stain, metal Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Beneath the Paper
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, blue mist, red salvia, and Turk’s Cap seeds (native to where I live), abandoned bird nest & chicken coop straw from Art Farm residency (Marquette, NE), resin to increase nest durability, fabric thread, various natural dyes & pigments, baby goat fur being groomed for 4H fair, silver-plated dish from thrift store, store-bought feathers w Maya blue pigment Dimensions: 16" depth, 16” width, 3” height Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Birds on Platter
(installation) Dimensions: 8" height, 10" depth, 10" width Media: Plaster, paint, found objects (plastic fries) Completed: 2021 Contact me for purchase.
Burger & Fries
(wall-mounted assemblage) Dimensions: 15.5" height, 2.25" depth, 15.5" width Media: Found objects (including purse), burlap, domesticated store-bought feathers, yellow onion skin dye (for feathers), fabric, acrylic paint, polymer clay (baked) Completed: 2022, revised 2023 Contact me for purchase.
Buy the Farm & ...
(pedestal piece) Media: found objects, natural/organic pigments, food grade flaxseed oil & peppermint oil, Elmer's (PVA) glue Dimensions: 23" width, 17” height, 10" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Connected
Can be on wall or pedestal. Media: Paper fr banana plants & palm fronds. Old tray, fork, & knife from our home. Paper fr recycled paper, turmeric dye, peppermint, red wool, baby goat fur fr Wabash IN 4H County Fair; a man was getting his son’s goat ready to show & he gave me some wool. Dimensions: 11.5” H, 21” W, 2.5” depth. Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Disturbing the Peace
(wall-mounted shadow box) Media: found object (shadow box), my homemade paper pulp, natural/organic dyes Dimensions: 13" width, 13” height, 2" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Earth Woman
(wall-mounted assemblage) Dimensions: 11" height, 6.25" depth, 11" width Media: Found objects, polymer clay (baked), domesticated store-bought feathers Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Extinct-ing
(ceramic bowl) Media: Stoneware, stain, underglaze, glaze, cone 6 Dimensions: 6” height, 12” width, 12” depth Completed: 2020 In a public collection (Center for Diversity & Gender Studies, Tx State University, San Marcos, TX)
Fast Fashion
(wall-mounted or pedestal shadow box) Media: found objects, my homemade paper, natural dyes/pigments Dimensions: 14.25" width, 10.25” height, 2.25" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
For My Pleasure
(tapestry) Media: found objects, embroidery thread, polymer clay (baked) for eyes on sides of branch Dimensions: 31" width, 24” height Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Freefall
(wall-mounted shadow box) Media: found objects (shadow box and book cover), my homemade paper, natural dyes/pigments, fabric and upcycled paper (inside edges & 4 outside flowers) Dimensions: 6.25" width, 8.5” height, 2.5" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Friends
(pedestal installation) Media: Raku clay, underglaze. Fishing line for hanging the tears Dimensions: 18” height (shorter without tears above the bowl), 4" depth and width Completed: 2019 Contact me for purchase
God's Tears
(These are seed bombs for native plants where I live.) Media: handmade paper from recycled paper and plants, plants and seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, where I live), turmeric dye, parsley dye, red beet dye, coffee pigment, Maya blue pigment, peppermint oil, thread, used shadow box Dimensions: 15.5” height, 12.5” width, 2.5" depth Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Happy World
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, old wood from our garage, screws, natural pigment/paint, upcycled fabric, Elmer's school glue Dimensions: 20” height, 20” width, 6.5" depth Completion: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
Hive
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: found objects Dimensions: 11" width, 14” height, 2" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Hu/ma/na
(tapestry) Media: Found objects (including an old red blanket), polyester batting, embroidery thread, coffee dye, rust process, Posca markers Dimensions: 18” W, 24” H Completed: 2023 This piece is part of a permanent international collection, affiliated with "Lift the Sky," based in California.
I Care 4 Her
(floor-mounted installation) Dimensions: 60” height, 72” width, 40” depth Media: Found objects, wood, paint, wire, fabric, batting, domesticated store-bought feathers Completed: 2021 In a public collection for socially engaged art (ARISE-Adelante, Alamo, TX)
I Have Wings
(pedestal sculpture) Dimensions: 31" height, 17" depth, 21" width Media: Homemade paper pulp (brown bags, blade-like leaves, Elmer's school glue), plywood & foam armature, found objects, natural pigments, motion detector doorbell. At the curator's discretion, the buzzing bee motion detector can be placed under the 4" bee, with burlap (included) to hide the motion detector. Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
In One Ear & Out ...
(to be hung from ceiling, tree, or wall) Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, natural dyes/pigments, embroidery thread, found objects, metal wire, twine, Elmer's school glue (PVA) & wood glue Dimensions: 40” height, 8” width, 5" depth Completion: 2023 Contact me for purchase
I've Got Hives
(wall-mounted assemblage) Dimensions: 10" height, 8" width Media: Found objects, embroidery thread, organic dyes and pigments (for frame) Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
If Birds Can Fly
(picture) Dimensions: 10.25" height, 12" width Media: Found objects, gesso paint, sandpaper (for distressed look and then stained to shade cow), Sharpie ultra fine point Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
I Remember Milk
(tapestry) Media: Found objects, wood, toothpaste, walnut dye, domesticated store-bought feathers (dyed with avocado skin dye), my handmade rope, embroidery & wax thread Dimensions: 11.5” W, 14.5” H Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
I'm Smelling the ...
Kinetic art, which I returned back to the wild Media: Found objects from (0 from Leon, Spain, street & rest from Joya artist residency, between Granada & Alicante, Spain) Dimensions: 11” W, 29” H, 2” D Completed: 2023 Public art installed on June 2, 2023
Joya
(wall-mounted assemblage) Dimensions: 10" height, 3.5" depth, 15" width Media: Found objects, fabric, glue, red cabbage dye acrylic paint, string, scrap paper Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
Just One Year
(pedestal piece, the animals and dowel detach for easy/small packing) Dimensions: 14" height, 11" depth, 12" width Media: Wood (found and sculpted). Gifted red coral & Mx fire opal. Sculpey clay (baked) for bird's eyes, organic & natural paints & pigments, organic flax cooking oil, peppermint & lavender oils Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Listening
(installation) Media: Earthenware, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, copper oxide stain, cone 6. Drop cloths, found objects, cloth dye, acrylic paint Dimensions: 14" height, 144" width, 108" depth (can be smaller to accommodate smaller places) Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Loving Food & Earth
(Public sculpture, which I left in an old building at Joya artist residency, Andalucía, Spain) Media: found objects Dimensions: 8" height, 8" width, 8" depth Completion: 2023
Magpie Me
(pedestal assemblage) Media: Found objects, stoneware, glaze (fired to cone 6), polymer clay (baked), acrylic paint, posca markers Dimensions: 10” W, 6.25” H, 3” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Milk
Media: Burlap, rusting process, acrylic paint, found objects (old frame and wooden wings). Mrs. Csirke can either be a McNugget or a reproducer. Actually, she has no choice. A cross in the background alludes to a distortion of a Judeo-Christian belief about human dominion over the natural world. Dimensions: 16" height (with strings hanging down), 22" width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke's Birth ...
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, banana plants, pond algae, palm fronds, and papaya leaf stems, Eupatorium/blue mist and Turk’s Cap seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, where I live), turmeric dye, avocado skin dye, parsley dye, coffee dye, Maya blue pigment, wood glue, saw dust (for middle paper), scrap metal from Art Farm residency (Marquette, NE), thread, yarn, old picture frame, egg shells dyed in tea Size: 24" W, 30" H, 2.5" D. Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
Mrs. Csirke Releases
Mrs. Chicken is protecting her diamond. Media: Handmade banana plant paper, algae fr. our 13’ x 20’ pond, parts of palm frond, white vinegar, avocado skin dye, turmeric dye, coffee stain, Mayan blue pigment, burlap, painted wood from my sister. Dimensions: 17.5" x 31" Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Protests
(clay paintings on cardboard) Media: clay I harvested and processed at Joya artist residency (Andalucía, Spain), PVA school glue (vegan) to seal the clay, cardboard Dimensions: 7.5" X 7.5", 7.5" x 10" Completion: 2023 Not for sale: Experimental pieces, some of which I gave to friends in Spain
Mud
(hanging assemblage) Media: polymer clay, found objects, mirror, burlap, paint, my free-verse poem Dimensions: 15" height, 14" width, 3" depth Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase
My Biocoloniality
(Public sculpture, installed outside of the main entrance of the Joya artist residency, Andalucía, Spain, in May 2023) Media: Found objects Dimensions: 44” W, 55” H, 14" D Completed: 2023
My Mark?
Thanks to Harlan Mack @VermontStudioCenter for his scrap metal, which I transformed during my artist residency Media: metal, natural pigments, paper pulp from recycled paper, Elmer's school glue Dimensions: 14” W, 9” H, 11" D Completed: 2024
My Wilderness
(hanging assemblage) Media: Found objects (pumpkin, wood, cheesecloth, soggy trampled cardboard outside of the ceramics' studio, papaya tree trunk that died from a cold freeze, coral my sister found at Key West beach, plastic man, glass beads, my hair, dryer lint, natural dyes and pigments, Elmer's glue Dimensions: 14” W, 15” H, 3” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Nature's X
(can be wall-mounted or pedestal piece, assemblage) Media: Found objects, fabric, polyester batting, thread, acrylic paint Dimensions: 13” W, 16” H, 4” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Not Too Scale
(tapestry) Media: Found objects, wood, rust process, natural dyes and pigments (walnut, indigo, avocado, onion skin), my hair, domesticated store-bought feathers, embroidery & wax threads Dimensions: 13” W, 16” H, 2.25” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Prey &/or Predator
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: Found objects, organic and natural dyes, pigments, and paints Dimensions: 20” W, 25” H, 4.5” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Sentient
(tapestry) Media: Found objects, rust process, coffee & walnut dyes, embroidery & wax threads Dimensions: 11” W, 16” H, 2.5” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
PussyCat
(tapestry) The drumsticks on each side of this tapestry have human breasts and bikini bottoms. Media: My mom's tablecloth, my blood, my homemade twine, coffee, Maya blue pigment, avocado skin dye, onion skin dye, Sculpey clay (baked) embroidery thread, found objects, wire, cotton Dimensions: 72" height, 57" width, 14" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Recycling Mrs. Csirke
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, red salvia seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, TX, where I live), bougainvillea petals, dyes: turmeric, parsley, beet. Scrap wood, Maya blue pigment (for leaf paint) acrylic paint on wood, toy gun (found at Art Farm, Marquette, NE, residency), unsweetened grape Kool-Aid on rifles, peppermint oil Dimensions: 18” height, 18” width, 3” depth Completion: 2023
Sowing Seeds ...
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, natural pigments & dyes, flora (found in winter), burlap, wood Dimensions: 22.5" width, 40.25" height Completed: 2024 Contact me for purchase
The Beekeeper ...
(wall-mounted assemblage) Size:: 16" x 19" Media: old rawhide dog bone found in our yard (sanitized with white vinegar & Castille soap), handmade paper & magazine paper, local flowers, branches, found objects. Seal: candelilla wax, organic carnauba wax, purple crayon. Rust process (steel, copper), Tegu lizard skin (naturally molted & gifted to me), natural dyes and pigments: black walnut, Mayan blue, cabbage, hibiscus. India ink, embroidery thread Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Scroll
Media: found objects Dimensions: 10.5" width, 10.5" height Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
The Encounter
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: found objects, thrift store shadow box, items my sister gave me from Key West beach, polymer clay, acrylic paint, string, homemade decal, acrylic paint, feather from Dominique chicken (unharmed) Dimensions: 8.5" width, 14" length, 3" depth Completed: 2022 This piece is part of a national park collection as part of my 2023 national park residency, Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, Nebraska
Thirsty
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: my handmade paper in a rustic residency in Spain (no blender, etc.), found objects: old chair parts from the Spanish residency, green plastic bag from Velez Blanco castle gift store (Spain), brown bag from Humana second-hand store in Madrid, embroidery thread, bone (sanitized) Dimensions: 18.25" height, 16” width, .75" depth Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
To the Thawing Wind
(This can be on wall or pedestal.) Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, blue mist seeds (native to where I live), turmeric dye, avocado skin dye, peppermint oil, azurite and Maya Blue pigments with mineral oil & alum (to stain wood & paper), old wind chime, wood, store-bought feathers (which I dyed w natural pigments & dyes, onion bag, red thread Dimensions: 18" x 23" Completion: 2023
To the Birds
(wall-mounted assemblage with plexiglass front and wood back) Media: red felt, plywood, plexiglass, found objects from Spain, my Covid test instructions to arrive to Joya artist residency (in Spain), embroidery thread Dimensions: 20.5" width, 17.5" height Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Tree of Life: COVID Ed.
Media: upcycled metal and wooden boxes (one of which was my mom's recipe box), found objects, paper pulp, natural pigments and paints Dimensions: 12" depth, 20" width, 9.5" height Completed: 2024 Contact me for purchase
Wanton
(soft book & farm rug underneath; buttons, strings, etc., were removed to prevent children from swallowing the objects) Media: fabric, polyester batting, image transfers, acrylic paint, found objects (including rug) Dimensions: 4" depth, 74" length, 38” width (with book folded). 4" depth, 74" length, 76” width (with book open) Completed: 2021 (rev. 2024) In a public collection for socially engaged art
What Is Meat?
(wall-mounted assemblage) Media: Found objects. polymer clay (baked), Indigo pigment, turmeric dye Dimensions: 17” W, 21” H, 4.25” D Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Wherever I Go ...
(tapestry) Media: repurposed leather and fabric, batting, nylon cord, wood, acrylic paint, posh markers, wire Dimensions: 74" H X 68" W Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Us
(tapestry) Media: bamboo and trampled cardboard (found at my university), my mom's tablecloth, used paper bag for teeth, rust, fabric from thrift store, polyester batting, domesticated store-bought feathers (dyed w avocado skins), palm fronds & bark, moss, polyester & wax thread, twine, petrified wood Dimensions: 95" W, 75" H, 6" D Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase