Altered Landscapes
With this new body of work I’m deepening my investigation into altered landscapes, both natural and urban. I combine photography with thread, found objects, maps, iridescent paint, buttons, lace. I sew over and into my photographs until the threads integrate with the photographic images to create a new object: phototapestries.
Sewing allows me to get my hands into the photograph, and thread changes the photographs into something more dimensional and textural. Thread is a transformational element in my work, and the finished pieces feel like fabric. The threads also blur the line between what’s real in the photograph and what’s beyond the picture or imagined. The metallic threads in the forest pieces evoke fairy tales and the history of the forest with no humans present. In the city, a car disappears in the fog, a figure walks alone on a street and the viewer gets the feeling that something is about to happen.

Stories in the Winter Woods
2022, 70" x 55" Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread, found object, iridescent paint, lace, buttons.

Positively Fourth Street Bridge
2022, 70" x 55" Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread, found objects.

Flying Over Land and Sea
2022, 38" x 30” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread, found objects, buttons, beads. Unique piece, $6,000

Mateo Street
2022, 55" x 55” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread, found objects, lace.

L’heure Bleue, the Blue Hour
2022, 55" x 55” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread. Two detail pictures, third one of sewing on the back of the piece

On the Way to the Magnolias
2022, 28” x 35” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread.

Stories in the Woods
2022, 23" x 37" Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread.

Blue Flower
2022, 27” x 34” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread.

El Camino
2022, 16” x 20” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread.

Into the Mystic
2022, 11" x 14” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper,thread.

Neighbors
2022, 11” x 14” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread.

City’s Gleam
2022, 11” x 14” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread.

Winter Night
2022, 11” x 14” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread.

Night Lake
2022, 11” x 14” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread.

Night Music
2022, 11" x 14" Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread