Quilt & Fiber Art
Enveloping Darkness is the fourth and last in a series that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a thread painted portrait of my mother when she was about 82 years old. By that time the Alzheimer’s disease had enveloped her mind in darkness and was slowly…
Hope for the Future is the third in a series called “Forgotten Memories” that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a thread painted portrait of me and my siblings. It is about 16″ x 24″ and appliqued onto a pieced background.
Optimism in the Spring is the second in a series that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a portrait of my parents, Homer & Maxine wedding photograph. My dad was in the Army Air Corp. They got married in the spring and had the optimism of…
Bittersweet Sixteen is a play on the “sweet sixteen” idea. It is a photograph of my mother Maxine when she was about 16 years old. Her future is ahead of her and she looks joyous. The bittersweet part comes as not knowing that her later years would be “bitter” with Alzheimer’s disease. …
Hadiya is a piece that I made from a photograph taken from one of my husbands mission trips to Africa. You can see the original photo on my commissions page. It is about 22″ x 26″ or so. Hadiya means “girl” in Swahili.
This photo was taken of my mother when she was about 90 years old. One day while visiting her I just wrapped my red scarf around her neck and snapped her photo. She had Alzheimer’s and passed away a couple of years after this photo was taken. In the original photo there was a…