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.