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Cyanotype collage of widow and child titled Indigo Madonna

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November 27, 2022November 28, 2022

The Myth of Madonna

I am revisiting themes from work made long ago much of which explored women’s fertility, agency, self-realization.

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October 10, 2020November 27, 2022

Mashrabiya

An exploration of the mashrabiya tradition created with encaustic wax and paper on wood panels.

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April 3, 2019December 7, 2019

Gothic Molecules

Two collages celebrating English open timber beam construction: roof trusses, vaults, collar braces, and beams reconstructed into fractal-like volumes.

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April 3, 2019December 7, 2019

Amulets in Pairs

This collage series was created in pairs using photographs from British Mandate Palestine, a zoology handbook, pages from an Arabic dictionary, and assorted ephemera …

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July 19, 2016December 7, 2019

Medieval Nightmares

This series is made from individual folio pages from the book European Brasses by A.C. Bouquet and Michael Waring, published by Frederick Praeger Publishers in 1967.

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July 10, 2016December 7, 2019

Revolt in the Desert

In homage to the Super Panavision 70 mm format of Alexander Korda’s 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, this collage is long and narrow to mimic the image aspect ratio of 2.20:1 and the vastness of a desert horizon.

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January 4, 2015December 7, 2019

Mars, mein lieben

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

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March 15, 2014December 7, 2019

Seven Seas

Folding books is a lot like crochet or knitting: you get in a groove and the action becomes very meditative.

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January 18, 2014December 7, 2019

Coverlet: A Lover’s Discourse

The idea for a quilted coverlet simmered for weeks before I could come up with a method to actually make it work. This coverlet is made from the pages of A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes.

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November 18, 2013December 7, 2019

Paradiso

This piece is a sister to Inferno, but celebrates the text with a constellation of gold spots. As with the other books in Dante’s Divine Comedy, circles play a central role in Paradiso (Heaven, or Paradise).

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