Shroud Series: How Do We Mourn our Losses? (Yin Version)

Shroud Series Detail

Shroud Series Detail

Shredded Shroud Series: Days of the Dead (Yang Version)

• Title of Artwork:  Shroud Series: How Do We Mourn our Losses? (Yin Version); Shredded Shroud Series: Days of

                                         the Dead (Yang Version) 

• Medium: (Yin Version) Shredded gauze, distressed vintage sequined blouse, cotton rose printed fabric, pins,

​​                                                  satin  ribbons, red thread

• Medium: (Yang Version) Shredded, torn, white, man’s T-shirt, black, Mexican Day of the Dead studded T-shirt,

                                                    red cotton

• Dimensions: 5' x 5' (Yin Version);  5' x 5' (Yang Version)
• This artwork is NOT for sale
• Description: 600,000 people dead worldwide, 140,000 dead, more than combined Viet Nan and South Korea wars and no national day of mourning for our dead and our suffering and more hateful killing everyday, like there are not enough dead yet. So, sequestered, I listen to requiems and think of the losses as I work in my studio... thinking about the Jewish tradition of tearing ones clothing “Kriah” at a funeral, of shrouds, veils, grief, roses the symbols of loved ones torn from us by an invisible foe, our fantasy sequined past, rending of clothing, the pain of pins, the frayed edges, the shredding, the tearing apart of our society and political ethics and still our leaders do not lead us to mourn the dead. We are frayed, distressed and torn apart. 

 

• ​​Title of Artwork: What You Are Looking For Is What Is Looking
• Medium: Fabric collage on canvas, inkjet printed silk and organza, wood frame with homge to ​Rene' Magritte's 

                           The False Mirror

• Dimensions: 36"h x 36"w
• This artwork is for sale
• Description: When I first read this quote by Saint Francis of Assisi, as an artist, I thought he was talking about     what does it mean to "look" to "see". I've always been curious about how to look at objects or people, what am I looking at and how do I interpret that into a two dimensional work of art? Upon further reading Saint Francis was not speaking about that at all. What he was talking about was our spiritual ​quest for the Divine. What we are"looking" for is in fact "what is looking at us". That the universe is "looking" at us, that a flower is divine, that our fellow humans are divine beings made in the "image" of G_d. And that G_d is what is looking back at us.