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who is she?

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 Like so many others  in the  world  who find self expression in Making (stuff), I spent much of my formative years engaged in the domestic arts.  Sewing, knitting, needlework nurtured my artistic inclinations and schooled me in construction. There is a lot to be learned from a Vogue pattern. However, the practical  reasons for knitting or  sewing were not sustaining-- the fibers and colors were too mesmerizing  for  workaday purposes! So, a knitted scarf becomes a mass of tentacles that curl  swirl .  A quilt becomes a broad canvas for surface design, a bas relief.
    
      I also make clay masks. I have always loved the human face-- itself a living mask which often belies the true feelings and thoughts of the at times inscrutable wearer. As a nurse I have encountered many of theses lives masks-- the newborn face, the face in extremis.   Pain, joy, grief, foolishness; the jaundiced countenance, awry eye-- the face is object and witness, a hint of the complex, the infinite.

      
     My Stuff consists of works made mostly from fiber (all kinds)  and clay     ( all kinds).  However, I embrace all materials and techniques -- metal, plaster, found objects; image manipulation, felting, fusing.  The  moon, stars  and a fair amount of practical consideration determine the medium and technique I use.