“When I was much younger, I had the naive notion that life would become less complicated as I grew older. Now that I am in my sixties, my life is just as complicated as before, but in different ways. The surfaces I design are a metaphor for my need to find a balance between my creative time and my marriage and my friendships. Chaos appears to reign on the surfaces' many layers. However, when viewed from a distance, the chaos becomes, like my life, a rich and bountiful landscape.”

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Jacket, Landscape
jacquard silk dyed, silkscreened, pieced, quilted, pucker shrunk, appliquéd, machine embroidered; pieced bias binding.

Back of Jacket

Tunic, Textile Fragment
jacquard silk dyed, silkscreened, quilted, pucker-shrunk, appliquÈd, machine embroidered, beaded; pieced bias binding

Textile Fragment
Detail of front of Tunic

Yardage, silk broadcloth
44" x 88"
multiple layers of dyeing, discharging and screen printing

Yardage, silk broadcloth
44" X 89"
Excerpts from "Finger Prints" by Francis Galton, 1892; multiple layers of dyeing, discharging, screen printing

Finger Prints
detail 		 
Yardage, silk habotai
44" X 77"
multiple layers of dyeing, discharging, silkscreening and foiling
Perennial Garden
44" X 82"
silk broadcloth, spray dyed, dye painted, appliquÈ, machine embroidery, silkscreening, foiling

Perennial Garden
detail