Souls of the Road
This ongoing series began during covid lockdown when I started seeing faces in the cracked cement of a nearby fire road. It began with one face, but soon I was seeing and photographing them everywhere – sidewalks, driveways, roads.
To make the faces more visible I sewed on my photographs with free- motion machine embroidery, creating two images, the face on the front and the sewed outline on the back of the piece.
I learned this tendency to see faces in random patterns is called pareidolia, and I loved the discovery in the dirt. It brought me back to my roots working as an archaeological photographer, but this time documenting artifacts of imagination.

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