Sky Quilts
The sky quilt series are flags to process, acknowledging life’s weathering, aging, renewal and resilience. Rich blues and earth tones invoke ever-changing skies, waters and ground. They are more than the sum of their parts, they are gestalt. They are both individual and community. They are thoughts during meditation and wholeness when we let them go. They are rupture and repair. They are both many and one; neither one nor many.
After gently emptying tea leaves, the tea bags were flattened and collaged with matte medium, painted with black tea pigment, then coated with cyanotype emulsion and exposed to the sun. The delicacy of the material speaks to impermanence, fragility of life, the preciousness of the form we have and opportunities it offers.
Float-mounted in archival maple frames by White Rabbet Frame Design in Taos, New Mexico.
Both Many and One, 29 inches x 21 inches, cyanotype, repurposed tea bags, black tea and matte medium, archival maple float frame
Neither One Nor Many, 22 inches x 21 inches, cyanotype, repurposed tea bags, black tea and matte medium, archival maple float frame
Process
Exhibitions
The Blue Show, Questa Public Library, Questa, NM June-July, 2023
Taos Abstract Artist Collective Fall Exhibition, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM, October, 2023
