(tapestry/banner) Media: Gifted jean fabric from my May residency @azule.arts (NC), my hair, ash tree limb from our yard, white rope found on the street, used burlap, domesticated store-bought feathers, avocado skin dye, coffee stain, polymer clay (baked) for buttons, animal print fabric fr a garage sale, fluffy scarf fr thrift store, wire, thread, red acrylic paint Dimensions: 24" X28" Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Holding Mrs. Csirke, Hoping ...
(floor installation) Dimensions: 60” height, 72” width, 40” depth Media: Found objects, wood, paint, wire, fabric, batting, domesticated store-bought feathers Completed: 2021 Contact me for purchase
I Have Wings
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 Entails ...
Everyone knows hens aren't cut out to be weather vanes .... Media: Fabric, found objects (metal, string, old frame, plastic), polymer clay (baked) Dimensions: 10.5" height, 8.5" width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke
Dreams in Vane
(tapestry) Media: scrap fabric and rope, polyester batting, scrap bamboo, my hair, domesticated store-bought feathers w my onion skin dye, thread: fabric, embroidery, wax. Acrylic paint for dowel. Coffee to dye rope and fabric. (In this tapestry, Mrs. Hen is reading a map so she can escape her plight of reproduction/the meat industry.) Dimensions: 38" width, 50" height Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Eyes...
Media: Baby sleeper from thrift store, found objects, Dominique hen feather (bird unharmed), polymer clay (baked), found object (old frame), shells, moss, twigs, and pods from taking walks Dimensions: 10" height, 8" width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Gives 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 and wood Dimensions: 24" height, 30" width Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase.
Mrs. Csirke Releases
Media: My mom's old jean dress, dead wood from my walk in Indiana, my hair, antique lace, plastic net from a wine bottle; onion skin & avocado skin dye, coffee stain; domesticated store-bough feathers, wax and fabric thread, Posca marker Dimensions: 29" x 29" Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Meets ... Sandwich
Media: Fabric, natural dye, Posca markers, found objects (ABC frame, rusted metal, string), embroidery thread, glass for frame Dimensions: 11.75" height, 8.25 width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke's Literacy
(floor sculpture) Media: papier-mâché (metal armature), found objects (toaster oven, moldy bread), acrylic paint, clear acrylic spray paint. Dimensions: 63" height, 28" width, 22" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke:
Nothin' Says ...
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
(tapestry) Media: Skirt, sweater, and baby clothes from thrift store, glue, branches and twine, red avocado skin dye, bamboo stick found at Art Farm (Marquette, NE) during my residency, onion bags Dimensions: 3" depth, 45" height, 49" width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Rises
(wall-mounted mosaic) Media: earthenware (cone 04), copper oxide stain, underglaze, glaze, found object (serving tray from our kitchen), white feathers, feathers from Dominique chicken (unharmed) Dimensions: 16.25" height, 12.25" width, 2" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke,
Très Jolie
(tapestry) Media: My mom's jean dress, thrift store red/white fabric, gesso, acrylic paint; old rope, bamboo & dowels, domesticated feathers & my hair (in tassel), polyester batting, thread, polymer clay (baked), wire, Posca marker Dimensions: 26" height, 28" width Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Pet Mrs. Csirke
(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
Reproducing Mrs. Csirke
Media: Photographs taken during my residency at Art Farm, Marquette, Nebraska, when Mrs. Csirke was one week to three weeks old Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase
Taking Care of
Mrs. Csirke
Media: Fabric, rusting process, yarn, polymer clay (baked), acrylic paint, feathers (Dominique hen, unharmed), found object (frame), homemade batting from rags, rocks, wood, metal scraps Dimensions: 8.5" height, 6" width, 1.5" depth Completed: 2022 Contact me for purchase