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Past&Future

Counterpane

This is a farewell to the collage technique I did for years, which became obsolete when the couching embroidery machine I used at a local factory was sold when the factory went under. The scrap from a decade of hangings became the compost for the last of the series.It is located in the White House […]

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Signatures

Spider Lily

My favorite flower is a startlingly dramatic tomato-red relative of the Amaryllis, whose chief virtue among many is that it springs up in drifts in the heat of August when nothing else is blooming. Separated from a compound flower, its blossoms press nicely, and the color spreads. The 9 page Signature is one of the […]