Return to Sender; dimension: 8' x 16', watercolor, chalk, charcoal
       
     
Return to Sender, closer detail
       
     
Return to Sender, vertical detail.
       
     
Return to Sender, vertical detail
       
     
Close to Home
       
     
Close to Home, (top detail)
       
     
Close to Home (Directions), detail
       
     
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Return to Sender; dimension: 8' x 16', watercolor, chalk, charcoal
       
     
Return to Sender; dimension: 8' x 16', watercolor, chalk, charcoal

This installation is made up of a battered, flattened U-Haul wardrobe box. Carved into the box is a clam-shaped brain structure with meticulously hand-painted addresses. These address contain real and scrambled addresses the artist has resided at in her lifetime.

Return to Sender, closer detail
       
     
Return to Sender, closer detail
Return to Sender, vertical detail.
       
     
Return to Sender, vertical detail.
Return to Sender, vertical detail
       
     
Return to Sender, vertical detail
Close to Home
       
     
Close to Home

A three-dimensional installation consisting of not only boxed objects but emotional baggage one packs and secures into a moving truck. Perched atop the pile of image and word laden boxes is a single crow who holds the key to the final destination of said boxes.

Close to Home, (top detail)
       
     
Close to Home, (top detail)

The thief (a crow) is keeper of an essential shiny key amongst a nest of scavenged materials atop an assemblage of moving boxes.

Close to Home (Directions), detail
       
     
Close to Home (Directions), detail

Photo tape transfers, found papers, string and paint on cardboard.

Close to home (side detail)
       
     
Close to home (side detail)

The act of moving symbolizes all sorts of uprooting feelings and requires sorting. Maps are required when moving to the unknown. Mixed media collage made with an image transfer on moving tape.