Our New American Heroes

 My most recent work, "Our New American Heroes," was shown at the Bridgeport Art Center's Cardboard show in November. It depicts Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg. 18" x 24"

 Here's a slide show of part of my April 2023 exhibit of Artist Books at the Orland Park Library. 

The show ends May 2, 2023.

This show runs through April, 2023

 

 I have made close to 100 books out of discarded cardboard, paper bags, junk mail, and other scraps. I teach bookmaking classes all over the city of Chicago, and use mine as collage journals.  Here are a few pages from my most recent book/journal, which has content about the Corona virus. This demonstrates how historic events affect our lives personally.

                                                             Something in the air

                                                All dressed up with nowhere to go.

                                                                Rash.

                                                        Trans-oceanic call

 New mosaics creeping up the walls of my house, finished Sept. 10, 2021

It's Bigger Than Us

This is another piece I have been working on during the past year. Just finished, it is a large quilt called "Bigger Than Us," in reference to the unknown forces affecting our lives. There are 3-dimensional mutant forms rising above a background of patchwork scraps, and  panels of solar prints, all hand painted and hand quilted.

                                                      

                                   

Coronaland

 Please excuse my long absence! I have not contracted Corona virus. There was merely a glitch in  publishing my blog, now corrected. During the quarantine I have been making fabric masks, journaling in my collage books, working on several gardens and several quilts, and I have created a card game, appropriately called "The Game of Corona." This is a tragic experience in which players imagine various aspects of the worldwide pandemic, including paranoia, germophobia, and a hypochondriac state of mind. I would like to market this game while the  virus is still prevalent. If anyone knows how to publish card games, please contact me.