Waiting at Home

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I am seventy years old.

I have too many books I will never read and more that I never should have bought in the first place.

There are too many things picked up along the way when they looked indispensable. And now there is a guilt connected with some that I took to draw later and have no way of putting them back. I can’t even remember where some of them came from, only that they found their way into pockets and suitcases and once home were placed in the studio with care and promises.

Now I am promising myself that on my next trip I will remember them still waiting at home for whatever I had in mind and keep my hands in empty pockets.

The Talisman Bag

The Talisman Bag
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The Talisman Bag

Since I work in mixed media, there is the constant draw to collect bits and pieces that could be useful. Usually they are dried pieces from Nature saved for their history as much as their potential. They lay there waiting to be made into something new and different so they can start all over again. And my job is to do just that – find a way to place them in a setting with others then step back and wonder if this is what they would have wanted.

The Talisman Bag is part of an ongoing series of titled HomeWorks. They involve  contact printing using plants from home, stitching, spinning, drawing and collected found pieces. Although this looks as though it could be worn, it like the rest of the HomeWorks are mounted in deep frames behind glass.