Media: Found objects, polymer clay (baked) Dimensions: 9.5" height, 12" width, 2" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Aggression
Can love protect us from violence? How can I be the peace? Media: Found objects, polymer clay (baked), acrylic paint, paper, marker, store-bought domesticated feathers, which I dyed with onion skin dye Dimensions: 30" height, 18" width, 6" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Let It Begin with Me
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, my hair, my fingernail clippings, my hair, red fabric scraps, red salvia seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, where I live), chicken feathers, fabric lint, peppermint oil, unsweetened grape Kool-Aid on rifles, confetti paper from thrift store. One gun and skull: resin coating to signify toxicity. Dimensions: 12” depth, 10” width, 4” height Completion: 2022 Contact me for purchase.
Eggs & Guns
This piece is about an unwelcome country to immigrants. Media: Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, cone 4 Dimensions: 3" height, 10" width, 10" depth Completed: 2021 Contact me for purchase
Journey to the USA
Describe your image
This piece is about my hope for the world. The doves can be hung. Media: Stoneware, glaze, cone 6 Dimensions: Sitting dove - 3 3/4" height, 3 3/4" depth, 9" width. Flying dove: 3" height, 10 3/4" depth, 10" width. Completed: 2021 Contact me for purchase
Peace Doves
This is about how peace relates to accepting diversity. Media: Porcelain, stain, underglaze, glaze, cone 6 Dimensions: 8" height, 9" width, 7 ½" depth Completed: 2020 Contact me for purchase
Peace Embraces Diversity
This is about the peaceful nature of this man. Media: Wood (hand-carved) Dimensions: 38” height, 6” width, 6” depth Completed: 1984 Contact me for purchase
Peace, Man
This is about unequal power, something that concerns me. Media: Stoneware (cone 6), found objects Dimensions: 16" height, 14" width, 8" depth Completed: 2020 Contact me for purchase.
Power
Media: Porcelain, underglaze, glaze, copper oxide stain, cone 6 Dimensions (with scale): 15 ½" height, 16 1/2” width, 18" depth (depends on the distance you display the 3 bowls, mask, and scale). I will create the poem and instructions regarding how to play the ball and scale game. I will use decals for the poem/instructions and will re-fire the piece. I will add hair in the holes. Completion: Unfinished Contact me for purchase
Power from Birth
Media: Stoneware (cone 6), underglaze, glaze Dimensions: 3 1/4" depth, 4" height, 8 1/2" width Completion: 2020 In a private collection
Remorse I
Note: The foot has a hole in it, so it can be hung up. Media: Stoneware (cone 6), underglaze, glaze Dimensions: 3 1/4" depth, 4" height, 8 1/2" width Completion: 2020
Remorse II
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, red salvia seeds (native to the Rio Grande Valley, where I live), bougainvillea petals, dyes: turmeric, parsley, beet, 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” depth, 18” width, 3” (height) Completion: 2023
Sowing Seeds of Hope
This is about guns, money, and death. Media: Stoneware, copper oxide stain, cone 4. Dried lizard that had died of natural causes (sanitized with rubbing alcohol) Dimensions: 7.5” height, 14.5” width, 8.5 depth Completed: 2020 Contact me for purchase