The ribbons, interchangeable and free-floating, move and whisper with a breeze. Oz presents polarizing images of innocence, good/evil, oligarchy, disability, fantasy and nightmares and resonates now, just as it did in the 1900s. The ribbons, coded with baby alphabet beads, are interactive.

The ribbons, interchangeable and free-floating, move and whisper with a breeze. Oz presents polarizing images of innocence, good/evil, oligarchy, disability, fantasy and nightmares and resonates now, just as it did in the 1900s. The ribbons, coded with baby alphabet beads, are interactive.

An interactive riff on wealth and head-in-the-clouds oblivion; the ribbons can be rearranged but are coded with baby alphabet beads to show my preferred sequencing. I fashion the coiled quills from painted papers; all the embellishments are hand-sewn. 

An interactive riff on wealth and head-in-the-clouds oblivion; the ribbons can be rearranged but are coded with baby alphabet beads to show my preferred sequencing. I fashion the coiled quills from painted papers; all the embellishments are hand-sewn. 

Hundreds of hand-painted paper quills are hand-sewn to a fabric print derived from an earlier piece. Thinking of inky deep waters, bubbles of white foam, reaching for the stars. Many untold hours of labor are hidden in the fashioning of painted papers into quills, with plenty of time to worry. 

Hundreds of hand-painted paper quills are hand-sewn to a fabric print derived from an earlier piece. Thinking of inky deep waters, bubbles of white foam, reaching for the stars. Many untold hours of labor are hidden in the fashioning of painted papers into quills, with plenty of time to worry. 

Doom-scrolling the apocalypse, fear gripping all, I retreat into a world filled with methodically stitching hand-painted paper quills to beautiful ribbons. The ribbons connote so many moments-Maypole celebrations, rending of funeral rosettes, calling to mind little girls, and the feminine mystique.

Doom-scrolling the apocalypse, fear gripping all, I retreat into a world filled with methodically stitching hand-painted paper quills to beautiful ribbons. The ribbons connote so many moments-Maypole celebrations, rending of funeral rosettes, calling to mind little girls, and the feminine mystique.