Brick Quilt

 

2025

I cut the fabric pieces to be the same size as the bricks of my new apartment building. 

Bridges

Some love notes to bridges I cross often--Jose Rizal and Roosevelt.

Honeycomb Quilt

 

2025

Fort Baldwin

A take on Fort Friendship--on a weekend I used the school's playground structure as skeleton for another fort. There were plenty of student and neighborhood families who helped build and enjoy the experience!

Fort Friendship

For my birthday I built a fort in the park. Plenty of wonderful people stopped by! I's so grateful for them.

I'd been cobbling together this for some time--collecting fabrics from special places and inserting references from homes and forts of my past. 

Power in Making

Oil on canvas, 24"x36"

2024-2025

I had been thinking about how power is generated and for what purposes: power as oppression/solitary gain versus power that is co-created and reciprocally benefited from. Power as profit versus power as intimacy. Throughout making this piece I joyously reflected on how I can engage in powerful intimacy through being a more conscious consumer, neighbor, community member, friend, and caregiver to my students and kitties.

Imagery comes from my runs in industrial areas and a lovely crafting afternoon with my friends Dean and Sam.

Journal Quilt

Tests and scraps from the year’s sewing projects so far, threadbare covid shorts, and frayed key ring, 20"x30", 2024

Made this while traveling back home to Illinois. Mostly by hand, some on the sewing machine my mom inherited from her friend. Gave mom and dad a little sewing lesson. 

My friend had the charming idea of a gallery in her new apartment before unpacking. A perfect spot to share this piece.