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
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
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, my hair & fingernail clippings, 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
Title: Happy World (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, 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 10’ x 12’ 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" W, 31" H Completed: 2023 Contact me for purchase
Mrs. Csirke Protests
Media: handmade paper from recycled paper, wood (my handmade shadow box), acrylic paint for the wood, turmeric dye, red cabbage dye, landscape felt (found at Azule, NC, residency), my hair, my partner’s hair, scissors and straw (found at Art Farm, Marquette, NE), black thread, marker, stone pig that I hoarded for many years Dimensions: 12” width, 12” height, 3.5” depth Completion: 2022, rev. 2023 Story: This piece relates to the comodification of art.
Paper, Rock ...
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 of Hope
(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