Chained Eclipse / Fiber-Photo Montage. Digital image transfer on layered organza over cotton.
Stitched, hand embellished with glass beads / 37.5’Äù x 49’Äù
I never know what’Äôs going to choose me. Conceptually moving between the past and present, mixing the universes of traditional quilt-making with twenty-first century digital technology, my fiber photomontages have computer-assisted, heat transferred imagery on multi-layered fabrics. The added dimension of time is often implied in the overlaying image on organza, giving a sense of motion to the figures captured in fleeting moments.
A self-proposed theme often directs my vision and I become a collector of images, like Paris street signs, Lions of the Veneto, shrines on Mount Koya-San. I resonate with objects that carry emotional weight. They are harder to define because memory and unconscious energy infuse them. I gravitate to close-ups of playing light on textural objects, natural or human-made. Thinking of possible backgrounds, chosen is anything that holds a visual interest on its own without being intrusive. Shadows always interest me as signs of someone or something that does not appear in the composition, but is present as witness.
I see my use of photography as the art-making bridge between my paintings, prints, collages, and fabric constructions, using the vocabulary of whatever materials and processes choose me at the moment.
