Assembly

These pieces are bits of object collection, experimentation, crossing mediums, story telling, and juxtaposition. The term “assembly” is the most accurate I’ve found to describe this practice, though it could also be described as installation or sculpture.

 

The Pink, 2023

Approximately 2’ x 5’. Bright pink oil paint on linen, tied with warm-toned embroidery thread then levered off a wall screw and spreading out to anchor invisibly on the back of a piece of driftwood.

 

Water-tight, 2023

Approximately 3’ x 5’. A poem embroidered in black thread on 3 sheets of taupe-colored fabric draped over found driftwood. It reads:

WHEN I KEEP MY HEAD SCREWED ON RIGHT

I KEEP THE ESCAPEES IN A WATER-TIGHT BAG

TAKING UP SPACE FOR NO REASON AT ALL

 

Remember This, 2023

Approximately 3’ x 3’. A sheet of linen embroidered with “Remember this” in light blue in the left top corner, is pinned to the wall with thumbtacks. A thin, curved piece of driftwood is attached to the linen piece by four points of wrapped embroidery thread which draw down into the middle of the cut opening in the linen. There hangs a sheet of taupe fabric with the ends of embroidery thread dangling on all but one, to which is tied a deep purple bottle with words etched in.

A poem accompanies this piece:

The washed up and plucked up

The hoarded in bottom drawers

The sorted by color

The newly purposeful

Deep purple glass

NECTAR of THE GOLDEN LIFE

of HEALTH AND VITALITY

Staubhullers Elixir Since 1880

The huddled in the kitchen corner

The crashing into recycling

The weight in his waving grip

The golden amber inside

Transparent cylindrical glass

Rebel Yell, Jameson, Monkey Shoulder

“Sorry, honey, you can’t fall asleep here.

This is a bar.”

 

Interview with a Knife, 2023

39.5” x 28” framed, sold.

A poem embroidered with thick black thread on taupe-colored fabric. It reads:

Grab the shimmering sword

from its butcher block home on the counter

Ride off to the arena

Cutting board spectators cheer you from the corner