New Era Series
• It's Okay To Be A Wild Flower
Let the Earth Cradle You
• Folktales 2020
• Baby Names 1955-2020
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It's Okay To Be A Wild Flower
This wild woman's uterus holds our California native Iris. A lightening bolt, OK gesture, the stars,
the moon, seeing everything in the universe as one, makes up her wildly joyous bouquet.
Her watery bodice, breasts and womb embody the ebb & flow of the feminine, home and sexual freedom.
In this revolutionary time we must not accept limitations on the rights, health and joy of all
who identify as women or nature!
Let The Earth Cradle You
Our teacher, Lilia, said, “Let the earth cradle you.” I loved the peace it gave me. I imagined this sculpture.
Time passed. Then we were all hit by the Pandemic, unemployment, Climate Crisis, evictions,
our people dying & divided. The murder of George Floyd highlighted the tyranny of it all.
One thing many people could do, was hike in nature and let the earth cradle them.
This was the one piece I felt I could create for everyone, everywhere. I hope it helps.
Our teacher, Lilia, said, “Let the earth cradle you.” I loved the peace it gave me. I imagined this sculpture.
Time passed. Then we were all hit by the Pandemic, unemployment, Climate Crisis, evictions,
our people dying & divided. The murder of George Floyd highlighted the tyranny of it all.
One thing many people could do, was hike in nature and let the earth cradle them.
This was the one piece I felt I could create for everyone, everywhere. I hope it helps.
Folktales 2020
Our American folktales in 2020: Covid-19, fire, fire, climate crisis, floods, trump, Black Lives Matter, $$$,
endangered: coral, frogs, flowers, butterflies, us masked. It's all in there.
Created for the invitational show, It's Not One Thing... It's Everything
@ Canessa Gallery San Francisco California, November 2020.
Our American folktales in 2020: Covid-19, fire, fire, climate crisis, floods, trump, Black Lives Matter, $$$,
endangered: coral, frogs, flowers, butterflies, us masked. It's all in there.
Created for the invitational show, It's Not One Thing... It's Everything
@ Canessa Gallery San Francisco California, November 2020.
Baby Names 1955-2020
When shelter in place began, March 2020, I was motivated to take advantage of previously desired, and newly
abundant, time. I completed 3 clay sculptures from March-May. For me that’s a lot! Then I began grieving.
When George Floyd was murdered I was completely untethered, emotionally and creatively. I couldn’t continue
on the same path. I wanted to hit the streets in protest but having reached age 70, COVID-19 held me back.
I mused and woke one morning with a full vision of a new piece, 'Baby Names-1955-2020,
incorporating my previous paths and Black Lives Matter. I found it critical for me as a white artist and mother
to speak these names, vote for change, create art that is Shaken not stirred.
The 44 names on this piece, begin with Emmett Till whose 1955 murder sparked the civil rights movement.
The list ends with George Floyd.
I chose white as my primary palette because George Floyd’s family wore white to his funeral saying,
this is "NOT an end, but a new era!" The yellow, cautionary, canary alerts us~ Canary & Elephant Series.
DNA is inscribed on two petals of the blooming rose ...In Everything Series.
Clay is slow, fragile, then stone. Change is slow, fragile then inevitable.
I feel an urgency to creat art in these precarious, revolutionary times.
These people were all somebody's baby.
I have linked each person's name to articles and sites that detail the end of their lives.
You, of course, may choose not to click on these links.
I hope you will at least be moved to honor them by Saying Their Names...
Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Ahmaud Arbery, Stephon Clark, Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Clifford Glover, Sandra Bland, Bettie Jones, Walter Scott, Rekia Boyd, Claude Reese, Randy Evans, John Crawford, Meagan Hockaday, Alton Sterling, Jordan Edwards, Tony McDade, Pamela Turner
Oscar Grant, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Andy Lopez, Randy Lopez, Randy Evans, Amadou Diallo, Keith Scott, Jordan Davis, Corey Jones, Freddie Gray, Nina Popp, Ezell Ford, India Kager, Mary Truxillo, Janet Wilson, Eric Reason, Alteria Woods, Renisha McBride, Willam Green, Timothy Thomas, Mya Hall, George Floyd
When shelter in place began, March 2020, I was motivated to take advantage of previously desired, and newly
abundant, time. I completed 3 clay sculptures from March-May. For me that’s a lot! Then I began grieving.
When George Floyd was murdered I was completely untethered, emotionally and creatively. I couldn’t continue
on the same path. I wanted to hit the streets in protest but having reached age 70, COVID-19 held me back.
I mused and woke one morning with a full vision of a new piece, 'Baby Names-1955-2020,
incorporating my previous paths and Black Lives Matter. I found it critical for me as a white artist and mother
to speak these names, vote for change, create art that is Shaken not stirred.
The 44 names on this piece, begin with Emmett Till whose 1955 murder sparked the civil rights movement.
The list ends with George Floyd.
I chose white as my primary palette because George Floyd’s family wore white to his funeral saying,
this is "NOT an end, but a new era!" The yellow, cautionary, canary alerts us~ Canary & Elephant Series.
DNA is inscribed on two petals of the blooming rose ...In Everything Series.
Clay is slow, fragile, then stone. Change is slow, fragile then inevitable.
I feel an urgency to creat art in these precarious, revolutionary times.
These people were all somebody's baby.
I have linked each person's name to articles and sites that detail the end of their lives.
You, of course, may choose not to click on these links.
I hope you will at least be moved to honor them by Saying Their Names...
Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Ahmaud Arbery, Stephon Clark, Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Clifford Glover, Sandra Bland, Bettie Jones, Walter Scott, Rekia Boyd, Claude Reese, Randy Evans, John Crawford, Meagan Hockaday, Alton Sterling, Jordan Edwards, Tony McDade, Pamela Turner
Oscar Grant, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Andy Lopez, Randy Lopez, Randy Evans, Amadou Diallo, Keith Scott, Jordan Davis, Corey Jones, Freddie Gray, Nina Popp, Ezell Ford, India Kager, Mary Truxillo, Janet Wilson, Eric Reason, Alteria Woods, Renisha McBride, Willam Green, Timothy Thomas, Mya Hall, George Floyd
