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Blue
Discarded Upholstery sample fabric, cotton fabric, outdoor fabric, used bike tire, plastic ball, vinyl, leather, and used work pants . 
58 inches by 83 inches

2008-14






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Green
Constructed of found and donated outdoor fabric.
44 inches by 75 inches

2015








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Blue Flowers
Cotton fabric from Scrap, thread, batting.
17 inches x 31 inches
2015





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Aerial Study #14
​23 inches x 21 inches
Discarded outdoor fabric, batting, truck tarp, upholstery scrap, vinyl, and thread.
2015


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Aerial #11 
Discarded outdoor fabric,batting, nylon scrap, upholstery fabric, and thread
18 inches x 28.5 inches
​2015

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Green Path
Discarded outdoor fabric, truck tarp, batting, and thread
​49 inches x 69 inches
​2016


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Orange And Meaning
Discarded outdoor fabric scraps, truck tarp, batting, and thread. 
​38 inches x 58 inches
​2016

"Orange and Meaning", is inspired by a boy  that I worked with in one of the pockets of economic poverty in San Francisco. It is in the form of a shield to offer him protection against all of the potential emotional, psychological, and physical harm that he will inevitably be confronted by.

He once told me that the orange backpacks  that I wore to our sessions saddened him. The color orange reminds him of  the city and county jails he's visited all over  the Bay Area. During these visits his father is often clad in an orange jumpsuit. He wants his father to come home. And to stay this time. There is road signage embedded in "Orange" to guide and keep the boy on the path.

The teal path, is the journey that we chart together 3 hours a day, 3 times a week, for 3 months. I was sometimes a guide, a tattered map in my grasp as we walk, but  I insist that he takes the lead.  Because this is his journey. The path we create meanders, moving gradually forward, then back, but steadily making progress, acquiring skills and momentum along the way.  The path goes over, and around, various obstacles. The path eventually splits, then abruptly ends, as our relationship did when the term of our work together expired.
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Sister
​34 inches by 36 inches
Discarded outdoor fabric scraps, truck tarp, upholstery fabric, and thread
2015
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Brother's Keeper ( How Rivers Become Orange)
38x 49 inches
Outdoor fabric scraps, truck tarp, batting, and thread
2016


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Blue with Yellow Jetty 
29x45in
Outdoor fabric scraps, truck tarp, thread, and batting. 
2016
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Avoiding Triangulation
53 inches by 124 inches
Discarded outdoor fabric, salvaged truck tarp, thread, batting
​2016

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Thanatos
192 inches by 86 inches
Discarded Cordura, found youth basketball and soccer shoes, leather remnants, upholstery samples, found rubberized polyester, nylon thread, batting, dried botanicals, and grommets. 
​2017-8

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Love, Luck, and Supports
39 inches by 52 inches
Scavenged Cordura, upholstery scraps, nylon thread, batting, and grommets. 
​2017
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