From my sketchbook:

“Can we have a sense of humor about art? Can we show that in the insanity of doing and making and perfecting—that there is so much out of our control? You must laugh. You must seek out the joy in the mistakes* and wrong turns”

*The “mistake” here is that I measure the wood frame incorrectly and had big gaps. So I held it together with handmade brass strips.

About Framed Quilts: After moving to Minnesota in 2023, I took an intentional pause with clay while I figured out my new surroundings. But I still had to make. I had a revelation with the quilt “It is ok to go slow, to be bold, and push through the hard times.” when I made a custom binding that extended the patchwork beyond the main quilt. I began experimenting with smaller quilts and built frames that I could paint to look like the binding I’d made on the larger quilt.