Improv Quilting
january mandala / basics
These old hand stitching tools remind me that life is too short to be on the computer all the time.
The Pope's Message of Mercy
MERCY resonates in my heart as I own the harshness with which I judge myself and others in countless minute ways every day.
Improv Patchwork Road Tales ~ Sweet Surrender
There was a sweet surrender to the score of the ROAD itself and it's adventures. My traveling partner and I said YES AND to the unexpected.
Mastering & Innovating Patchwork Techniques
Innovation is something that happens when there is no instruction manual readily available. Improv Handbook giveaway on OkanArts.com.
2014 Review ~ Acceptance
Filled with accomplishments and maturity. I'm excited to see where this new found embrace of everything in my life will take me!
20th Century Comfort Room
It's an interior space that speaks about the confinement of imagination. Installed at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 1998.
38,564 words and twelve new quilts!
It's as if I've been on a boat for the last year and a half and I've just been dropped off on a new shore in my life. Everything is new. Everything is YES! Many thanks to all who've been on the journey with me.
Happy Holy-Days!
Any special time set aside to be really present with family or friends is a treasured holiday or "holy-day" in my book.
Piñata Anchor of Hope ~ Happy Birthday Mom
Remembering a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the city of Durham, NC, that marked the beginning of urban (and personal) renewal.
improv from the heart ~ lessons learned in theater class
My improvisational patchwork process is getting a boost from taking an improv theater workshop. It also affirms my deepest values: discovery is the path to freedom, freedom is the path to connection, connection is the path to joy.
Sunny Edwards Memorial Quilt ~ Improvisational Patchwork
The improvisational patchwork process mirrors the re-orientation of bereavement.
Extravagant Generosity
This one quilt "Manna" brought in $16,000. I wonder about the power, the extravagant generosity of art to move people and rain bread from heaven.
A Visit With Eli Leon And His Quilts ~ Part 1
Eli Leon has over 1000 African-American quilts in the improvisational style and he invited me to his home to see his collection!
Death Valley Resilience
The Pinyon smelled so good when I crushed it. I imagined that this is the smell of the heart --of love being released.
Death Valley Bound... Again!
There will be no distinction between inside and out when I return to Death Valley. There will be no past or future, only the space of the present.
valentine 2013 ~ just because...
Like some psychic homeopathic remedy, heart break put me on the path of kindness and compassion, and made me reconsider the evidence of love.
goodbye 2012 hello 2013
kissing myself with gladness, reveling in my imagination. staying up late, dancing with contentment, welcoming 2013 with an o o o o open heart!
lots-o-news
I was chosen to receive the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant! That's $25K! But it's so much more than the money.