The daily devotional
The daily devotional is the latest installment of ongoing experimentations with fiber technique, language, and ritual. An assemblage of photographs and intimate sewn works, the installation explored text, forms constructed by language, and traditional fiber work. Initially began as a reaction to the unusual circumstances of the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, the project continues as a record and investigation of repetition and permutation. Using a $1.25 mass-market paperback version of Michael Crichtonʼs Andromeda Strain, I perform daily repetitive acts cutting, quilting, pleating, reassembling and photographing pages into small works. This site-specific installation in the Lawndale stairway invites a close examination of the results of that ritual, creating an experience of repetitive action similar to the process of making.
Lawndale Art Center
Houston, TX
November 21, 2024 - January 9, 2025
The daily devotional. Prie dieu; The discipline; and sewn papers. 2020-2025
The discipline. Embroidery on velvet, waxed string. 24 in x 16 in x 16 in; 2024.
Prie Dieu and The discipline. Crape myrtle, leather, velvet. 48 in x 48 in x 24 in; 2024.
North wall, installation view: Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages. 2020-2025
The early hours. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages; 10in x 8 in; 2021.
Dream whole. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages; 10in x 8 in; 2021.
Count your pages. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages. 2020.
Jagged (top). Vertical obliteration (bottom). Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages; 10in x 8 in; 2025 and 2022.
(Left to right) White feather; Joinery I. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages; 10in x 8 in; 2025.
(Center images) Contact; Broadly. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages; 10in x 8 in; 2021.
North wall: Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages. 2020-2025
These. Cotton thread on mass market paperback pages. 2020.