Vessel Textiles

Statement

For years the staircase was my muse. The stairs alluded to a journey, becoming metaphors for expressing various paths, transitions, and thresholds within life's experiences. Similarly, a boat symbolizes a journey and a vessel can symbolize self. The vessel in all its many forms is now my muse.

I use the vessel in all its many forms to distill and express my response to life. Seedpods, canoes, sailboats, dinghies, weaving shuttles, and kayaks are part of my personal history. They symbolize journeys. They symbolize the self. The vessel is also a metaphor of interior and exterior, of containment, of transport and journey, and as a tool like the boat or tatting shuttle, with the ability to create.  It is both universal and personal.

The textiles begin as white cloth.  The color, pattern and imagery are created using dyes, textile paints and a wide variety of surface design techniques. Simple elegance and a timeless quality evoke past cultures and spiritual traditions.