The individual squares are digitally printed on Kozo paper, mounted on a backing, and then screen-printed with stitching drawn in a “crazy-quilt” style.
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This is a vintage crazy quilt square that I collected showing the type of embroidery that inspired me. I like how the hand of the stitch-maker is directly reflected.
There's a story behind each square...scroll down if you are curious.
This is a t-shirt design that my daughter produced with her company to benefit My Block, My City, My Hood in Chicago.
I have a big, shady perennial garden that is having a very good year. I’ve been spending a lot of time there. This is a hosta plant after a rain.
This is another benefit poster from Globe Letterpress at MICA in Baltimore, printed in their signature florescent rainbow roll. My daughter went to school there and I have also worked in letterpress.
Lots and lots of cooking. This is red cabbage.
This was on a wall at the George Floyd memorial at 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis on the day of his funeral.
An unusual sport of wild ginger in my garden that is reliably variegated. I have thought of trying to get a patent on it but it’s complicated and expensive.
The sky out back after a storm.
A wonderful new-to-me piece of Red Wing art pottery designed by Charles Murphy.
As seen on a walk in the nearby Lakewood Cemetery.
Pine needles and sky on a walk.
Wishful thinking on a postcard in my studio.
Old vacation photo of me from 1987 that a girlfriend recently found and sent. Check out the vintage bathing suit I was wearing. It had boning and a zipper!
As seen on a walk in the neighborhood.
From a list of names of people killed by police written on the street near Cup Foods in Minneapolis.
Vintage brass X stencil.
Amazing nature. Why are we wrecking it?
Just a little of the response by artists on the boarded up buildings in my neighborhood.
A beautiful new Itoh peony called Kopper Kettle I got for Mother’s Day.
Prisoners in our homes, but lucky to have them.
A stencil of George Floyd, on the ground near his memorial at 38th and Chicago Ave. in Minneapolis, taken on June 4th, 2020.
“Change is Coming” graffiti at the George Floyd memorial from June 4, 2020. I hope so.
Nature’s sky with human overlay. Will we learn from this?
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