Collector’s Items
Benthos (25.75" x 36.5") - Animals living on the sea floor are known as benthos. A color study used a stencil of a group of long armed brittle stars. I embroidered all the missing arms to suggest a group of snapshots taken from above the deep sea floor.
California Gold (42" x 19") - The streams that feed the Kern river in the souther Sacramento Valley are home to these jewel-like small golden trout. Widely stocked for anglers, they are rare in their native streams.
Collector's Items 2 (45.5" x 32.5") - Diatoms are microscopic jewels encasing aquatic plants. The hollow punches used to cut stencils were perfect to cut these huge diatoms. I arranged them as though they were precious gems on a jeweler's velvet board.
Collector's Items 1 (46" x 30") - Sold in Japan at my first exhibit there
Diatoms (39" x 38") (Sold) - Tiny microscopic plants that live in the plankton, diatoms are tiny glass jewels, pierced in delicate patterns perfect for my Japanese punches
Diatoms 2
Diatoms 3
Heading Home (43" x 23") - Global Warming is contributing to the decline of salmon runs. The fading fish in this quilt represent my plea for the world to co-operate to stop the process.
Dragonflies (55"x43") - Dragonflies, endlessly popular, fascinate everyone. When I got to looking seriously at their beautiful wings, I realized that no matter what the body looked like, the structure within the wings was basically one of only two types. By cutting stencils for pairs of the two types, and several bodies, I was able to get a bit variety of these lively creatures.
Fish Market
Geological Clocks (24" x 41") - I am particularly partial to the ammonites, ancient relatives of the Chambered Nautilus and the octopus, because I spent my professional life as a marine biologist studying octopus. Fossils mark the time in geological history. I stamped numerals and stitched clock faces on this group of fossils.
