portfolio

Mandalas

Tough News
The first in an exploratory series. Mixed media, 8" square.
MARI Mandala
The third in an exploratory series. Mixed media, 8" square.
Fissure of Feeling
The fourth in an exploratory series. Mixed media, 8" square.
Vision Over Chance
Collage mandala supporting focus during a crisis.
Quick Crucible
Personal transformation process of grief.
9/21, 9:21
Considering a loved one's life review.

Scenes 1.

Animations: Spectator Series

Amour Event

DIVE & DROP

DEPTH CHARGES

Next Steps

Palace Peak

luxe lounge

Collages

Incidents Series

Clown Down
Mixed printed matter collage comprises a scene of a clown doll under a section of track as a train disappears into the distance. Children in parts of a tiger costume look on.
Lookin Lucky
Whimsical mix, under an Asian gate, playing cards, joss paper, above an auto stretched with yogic legs. Observed by a masked face.
Bitesize
In this fantasy setting, a king, precariously pinched by a parrot, enters the queen's castle as she observes.

Chill Series

Vacation Rental, 11 x 14"
2016. 11x14”
Plage Française, 11 x 14" 2016
Collage of remembrance: clear blue sky, calm waters, and beach umbrellas.
Essence Exchange, 13.5”sq 2022
Part of a series referencing Ancient Greek sculptures placed as living figures in various settings.

Idylls Series

Elemental Eden
2019. 18x24"
Equinox Altar
2019. 18x24"
Awaiting Audience
2019. 18x24"

Poetry Series

Composure
2019. 11x14"
Sweet Sleep
Analog collage of mixed printed matter. 11x14" 2019. A sleeping crescent moon upon a baptismal font amidst a soft surrounding.
Analog collage.
Daylight with blue sky brightens an imaginary garden of plants, trees,and letter fragment.1x14" 2108

Challenge Series

Next Moves
Analog collage of blue sky above and golden, stylized plant forms rising above a chessboard. 16x20 2018
Mars Co-ordinates
A surreal environment imagined as a communication station on the planet Mars. 14x17” 2018
Viewpoints
Human eye looking through dark shards, perceiving light beyond. 14 x17” 2017

Book Works

Evidence of Attendants
4 x 7 x 1"
2BUNI
5.5 x 4.5"
Denominations of Worship
8.5 x5.5 x52” open

Gum Bichromate Prints

A series of gum bichromate prints made from x-rays, and photo-printed text.
Gum Bichromate prints, 1990, 16 x 68"
"Extraordinary Place" Non-Silver, Gum Bichromate prints. 16 x 70" 1990
The female womb is juxtaposed with ceramic vessels in a frieze of Non-Silver, Gum Bichromate prints made from X-Rays, Textbooks, and personal writings. Here, motherhood as a sacred container of life is explored.

Mixed Media/Gum Bichromate Paintings

"Always & Everlasting", mixed media artwork, Non-Silver, Gum Bichromate prints, fabric, acrylic paint. 17 x 34" 1996
Mixed-media artwork. Family archives' photograph of my mother holding my older brother as an infant. Accompanied by sections of text from letters of support written to me. Non-silver, Gum Bichromate prints, fabric, acrylic paint. 17 x 34" 1996
"Foundation" Mixed Media, Non-Silver,Gum Bichromate prints, fabric, wood, acrylic paint. 12 x27.25" 1994
"Foundation" is a mixed media artwork that features the childhood home that my father built in Ohio, 1949. Non-Silver, Gum Bichromate prints, fabric, wood, and acrylic paint. The phrase within it "...fixed me a new foundation" speaks of becoming my own adult, forming my own basis of reference. 12 x27.25" 1994
"Poor Eros" A mixed-media triptych of Non-Silver, Gum Bichromate images with acrylic paint. 17.5 x 14.5" 1992
This fold-out triptych, made in the style of a portable altar, houses the God Eros. He is broken, surrounded by detritus symbolizing sexual love misconstrued. Mixed Media, Gum Bichromate prints, 17.5 x 14.5" 1992