Souls of the Road
Like many people, I’ve always seen faces or animal shapes in clouds. But
during the Covid lockdown in 2021, I suddenly saw an image of
a face and partial body in the dirt and broken concrete fire road I’ve
walked on a hundred times.
Big Man was the first face I identified, a mythic priestlike character, then
Chopin, a woman with curls piled on her head like a 1600s French wig,
then Wizard and Broken Nose. Soon the faces were everywhere. I learned
this tendency to see faces in random patterns or inanimate objects is
called pareidolia.
I loved this discovery in the dirt and was brought back to my archaeology
roots of finding pieces of past civilizations in the earth.
To define the faces and make them more visible I sewed on my
photographs, following the lines of the faces with machine embroidery,
creating two images, the face on the front and the sewed outline on the
back of the piece. My collection of these Souls of the Road is an ongoing
project.

Wizard
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Toulouse
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Big Man
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Lips
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Chopin
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Kiss
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Coral Lipstick
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Nachtgespenst
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Root Man
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Girl with Gold Earring
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread

Woman in the Woods
2022, 33” x 43.5” Sewn archival pigment prints on kozo paper, thread

Broken Nose
2022, 12” x 9.5” Sewn archival pigment print on kozo paper, thread