Palmarin Merges
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Country Living
April 2009
Screenprint & acrylic on Portland, OR Thomas Guide
10 1/8" x 8 5/8"
Maps anchor you to your current Home. I work in Multnomah County and this is my homage to it.
Real Estate
May 2009
Screenprint & collage on Kitakata
16 3/4" x 20 1/2"
A statement on the current housing market. Homes are available, it's like a buffet. You just have to pay for the meal.
Heart 2 Hart
May 2009
Screenprint & collage on Kitakata
16 5/8" x 20 1/2"
Home is where your heart is. I like to play with words and thinking of Heart and Home made me think of Hart and Deer. Deer Hart.
Outside Inside
March 2009
Screenprint, acrylic & embossing powder on blueprint
20 3/8" x 12 1/4"
Is Home really your Home? If you lost it all you could make another home. Isn't your Home than within you? A brave Man carries his home with him. The deer and the chair enmeshed, becoming one with one another.
Shooting Star Ottoman
April 2009
Screenprint, acrylic & collage on Kitakata
16 1/2" x 10
The wildflower known as the shooting star is my favorite flower. Even within our homes sitting on the leather couch, there is a piece within us that is at all times connected to Nature.
Orange Frass
August 2009
Screenprint, machine and hand embroidery on recycled bed linens
11 1/4" x 36"
This is my version of a modern day 'sampler'. Unlike traditional samplers, it's full of modern slangs and humor. I learned how to do the stitches in a Brazilian Embroidery class.
A Real Piece of Work
May 2009
Screenprint, machine & hand embroidery on recycled bed linens
19 3/4" x 14"
I learned how to use the embroidery function on my Bernina to write. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with spellcheck.
The View Never Changes (Final State )
July 2009
Screenprint, machine and hand embroidery on recycled fabric
13 4/5" x 5 7/8"
The constellations happened when I decided to make stars first and cut the thread later.
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Country Living
April 2009
Screenprint & acrylic on Portland, OR Thomas Guide
10 1/8" x 8 5/8"
Maps anchor you to your current Home. I work in Multnomah County and this is my homage to it.
Sampler
The themes of domesticity and pop culture meet inside this new body of work. Embroidery is a painstaking act of domesticity. The Sampler was used as a guide for young children to remind them of the stitches they learned. I’ve personalized it and made the Sampler a way to give recognition to the permutations of Home. Instead of bible versus, that were traditionally stitched, I’ve used modern phrases such as ‘Dude’ and ‘Right on!’
Home isn’t necessarily a collection of things or even what you do while you're there. But things remind us of home. It is at once, a physical and a mental place.