Live From Afar

My wall on July 11th This is the largest image on my Covid Art Wall, 17 x 10.5 inches. Just Black gesso poured on Arches watercolor...

The dour and glum expressions on the faces of the three women in the photograph contrast sharply with the little boy who cannot help but...

I like to visit churches and monasteries all over Europe because they bring me closer to my mother (now deceased) who was Catholic....

In the summer of 1987, I studied printmaking in Urbino, Italy. I played around with etchings on copper. One image that I kept was a print...

This is a larger piece, approximately 25 inches long. It holds three different six inch silicon wafer prototypes. Harvested from the...

This is another of the prints my parents collected with its description underneath and a fragment of an antique photo together with a...

This is an unusually bold use of color, making a single new piece of art from fragments of two earlier ones. It is not my favorite work...

Notice that I sewed this Ladies Home Journal article onto its background – it is very fragile. I love the contradiction of advising men...

Around 1995, as an antidote to all the cerebral semiconductor wafer experiments I was doing, I poured gesso on handmade paper. Some were...

I don’t know what the letter is about, but focus on the photograph, taken by a professional. No snappy fantastical background. Rather...

Another VERY early experiment with these new six inch silicon wafers, this one from 1997. I etched on it in two sets of squiggles, meant...

I don’t believe I have another six inch square print like this one. It was made very early when I was experimenting in every which way I...

I referred to this in the previous post: the backgrounds that people selected when they went to a professional photographer’s studio a...

I love the way old photos were staged and how they were staged at the photographer’s studio with elaborate backdrops. This one just has a...

Several times I’ve included fruits and vegetables that I painted after I bought them at the Friday market in Carpentras, France. Most of...

I’ve used one more original page from my embroidery sampler book from my friend Heidi. I paired it with a page from the 1890s Ladies Home...

When I decided to do this project, I re-experimented with watercolors, not my forte. My first foray was to paint these leaves. I was...

Around 1992 I was just learning how to print with these rejected wafers from a semiconductor manufacturer. In the early days I had copper...

In 1975 I was a senior at UCLA, taking classes between 8 – noon, and working in the afternoon. My job was as a secretary to a private...

A 1913 advertisement paired with a family photo of the same time brings up for me the timelessness of baby care. Whether it is the safety...