Queen of Lost Connection, broken cables and connectors, paper form, wire, collage, corrugated cardboard, primer, stretchers
Sixth in series, “regina amissa nexu” Queen of Lost Connection strives to reconcile entropic disconnection. Ghostly in a tangle of broken wires, they seek to heal where humans have tread in harm.
Queen of Lost Connection detail
Queen of Lost Connection detail
Queen of Mushroom Fruits, paper form, dried shitake, dried wood ear, wee wild mushroom, dried leaves, acrylic varnish, ink, gold leaf, tigers eye, cotton rag paper, stretchers.
Fifth in series, “regina boleti fructus” Queen of Mushroom Fruits balances on the fluid surface while connecting deep underground. She is moving, living, expressing fecund flesh and fruit where she goes.
Queen of Mushroom Fruits detail
Queen of Mushroom Fruits detail
Queen of the Constant Forest
deer antlers, collage, paper form, bark, Gypsy moth wings, dried leaves, aluminum wire, copper tag, gold leaf, hinge, screws, acrylic varnish, cotton rag paper, wooden stretchers.
Fourth in series, "regina assidue silva" Queen of the Constant Forest abides as the cycles of the forests unfold. Chest emblazoned with curled bark and moth wings, the Forest always in metamorphosis. She roams the earth, eternal.
Queen of the Constant Forest - detail
Queen of the Living Earth
collage, paper form, barley, self adhesive decoration, flicker feather, copper wire, copper seeds, acrylic varnish, cotton rag paper, wooden stretchers.
Third in series, "regina terrae viventis" This Queen of the Living Earth is lasting, strong, fertile, resilient. Her body and breath comprise the earth and sky. She exhales and seeds of life spread across the earth.
Queen of the Living Earth - underneath
Queen of the Living Earth - detail
Queen of the Living Earth - detail
Queen of Living Souls
formed and dried philodendron tree leaves, dried pears, text excerpts from The Golden Bough, paper form, copper seeds, copper acrylic paint, golden thread, gold leaf, gloss varnish, cotton rag paper, wooden stretchers.
Second in series, "regina animarum viventium" This Queen is a holder of Souls, a protector and conveyer. The formed and dried leaves are like hands or vulvas, carrying the Souls in their journeys. Small dried pears, the Souls, carrying seeds to continue life. Text excerpts from "The Golden Bough"
Queen of Living Souls - underneath
Queen of Living Souls - detail
Garlic Queen of the Earth
onion and garlic skins, collage, paper form, pendant, gloss varnish, cotton rag paper, wooden stretchers.
First in The Queens Series, "allium regina terrae," Garlic Queen of the Earth, conveys LAYERS: in the environment; of a life long lived; a long life extending. Striving for beauty and balance in decrepitude.
Garlic Queen of the Earth - underneath
Garlic Queen of the Earth - detail
Wonderful stuff donated to me: handmade paper décolletage, stretcher frames, and much more. Combine collected leaves, desiccated fruit, grasses, seeds, antlers, collage, paint, items saved from the compost, creating archetypal characters, Queens, guides, goddesses.
Titles are in Latin, referring to biological nomenclature, and English.