Artist Statement: Words tossed, or jumbled together, some colorful, some with hidden meaning. Flirtatious, passive, angry, intriguing – what do we see or hear in the mysterious array of terms, letters, symbols? In the same way that words tumble into our ears and out of our mouths (or vice versa?), this tossed salad of terms and phrases argues that meaning may be incidental. Maybe it gets lost. Maybe it was always a bit of an illusion. The bunching together of the background hints at the varieties of ways we have of hearing one another, perhaps with clarity but also with bewilderment. My own preference is for singular and specific meaning. But our life, and our attempts to explain that journey to one another, is a much more puzzling enterprise.

Dimensions: 51" wide x 32" high

Materials and Techniques: Hand dyed and commercial fabrics which were then printed with poems composed for the collaboration. Hand written phrases that had meaning to the collaborators. Guitar strings, floral wire, silk and cotton threads, Machine pieced. Hand and machine quilted.