TEXTILE SCULPTURE


INTERACTIVE ART SCULPTURES

Family Ball Series
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Wet felt inner with silver thread lining and needle felted outer, hand-dyed wool.
  "Family of Balls"
                           "Memoir"
                                                     "Canada Ball"
                 "Canada Ball'' detail


Sunrise in Los Angeles

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"Sunrise in Los Angeles" detail

Spirit Tree
Hand-woven mohair with roots wrapped in copper wire,  gathered and sandwiched between two plexiglass strips. Mounted into a found root, unearthed and polyurathaned.  Height 6X3' at base.
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"Spirit Tree" detail


Danger


This is a piece that took me from the loom into basketry.  I love working with raw reeds and reaching  a flow by combining natural materials with man-made fibre.



Swamp reeds and plastic "danger tape" woven in basketry technique.

Miniature ~ Christmas 2009



Knitted cotton, copper wire, feathers, antique frame







private collection

Dancing Horse Spirit
Head Dress
"Dancing Horse Spirit" head dress was originally made for my daughter Tracey to wear in a dance at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. I  reconstructed it and added real horse hair, and a mane of coloured nylon cloth strips with copper strips. The stand is made of birch bark, and is on wheels.
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"Dancing Horse Spirit" detail
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"Dancing Horse Spirit" detail


Freedom to Dance



Copper Flow

 






Copper wire plyed into a 6-strand cord on a spinning wheel, then knitted on the bias to give it a different flow.

Recycled Sign Art

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"Recycled Sign Art" detail

Talons and Bones

For years I have been fascinated with the skulls, bones, and items
I have found in my deep woods walks.  This is a small offering
to those fallen in the cycle of life.


Past Works ~
Textile Sculpture from 1970 to 1999

Handmade-to-order cherrywood three fold screen.  
With hand dyed burnt orange macrame fine jute, 1970    SOLD

 Commission in Boulder Colorado.  
Three macrame panels set into 7-foot windows.
Each has 500 wood beads set into hand dyed, burnt orange fine jute, 1972  

Macrame white cotton mop yarn and ceramic flower heads, 1972    SOLD

Macrame wall hanging.  
Yellow and burnt orange cotton mop yarn.
Supported and hanging from antique horse team harness, 1971   SOLD

Macrame hand dyed grey and burnt orange jute,
with feathers, Boulder Colorado, 1993    SOLD

Macrame hand dyed blue and yellow mop yarn 3D, 1993  SOLD 

 Restaurant commission, Boulder Colorado.
Construction of core spun multi-colour wool.
Macrame and adornment in nylon rope.
Commissioned cherry wood frame, 1994

 "The Three Sisters"  hand woven in tube with slit tapestry technique.  
Natural sheep's wool core-spun.  
In the collection of the Crocker Bank, San Francisco, 1994