Like anyone, I seem to be stealing time in-between my responsibilities. I have found listening to one artist, or even one album can put me right into the flow state. Give your viewing experience a soundtrack with these Spotify playlists of the artists, albums, and songs on heavy repeat.
BANANAS FOR SCALE – Apple Music
BANANAS FOR SCALE – Spotify
Click for song list for BANANAS FOR SCALE – Jan 6th, 2021
A not-so-traditional still life fruit collaged from one newspaper dated January 7th, 2021, illustrates the preceding day’s events as “bananas.”
MODEST MOUSE
Good News for People who Love Bad News, 2004.
- The View
- This Devil’s Workday
- Satin in a Coffin
- Bury Me With It
- Dig Your Grave
- Ocean Breathes Salty
This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About,1996.
- Dramamine
- Lounge
- Beachside Property
- Dog Paddle
- Breakthrough.
As January 6th, 2021 unfolded in the news, I looked on, baffled that every lesson I tried to impart to my children was blatantly disregarded by the politician in our highest office. Using only a single newspaper I was sure to retrieve at 5:00 am on January 7th, 2021, I found solace in an obsessive word-find and tonal puzzle, combining recent studies of my favorite still-life fruit with the chaos of a fragile democracy. The borders seen in this piece are found in the original. It is my no filter finishing victory lap made from leftover scraps encapsulating this moment in time.
Recently this piece has taken on new resonance, invoking themes of immigration amid recent ICE raids in Los Angeles.
HOCUS POTUS – Apple Music
HOCUS POTUS – Spotify
Click of song list for Hocus Potus – The First Debate, 2024
Headlines highlighting mental decline and a felon candidate are woven together to create this paper potholder, managing both election chaos and a family member’s health crisis.
KIASMOS
Blurred, 2017; Kiasmos 2014.
- Blurred
- Paused
Black Pumas, 2019.
- Know You Better ILive at C-Boys), Colors.
Watching Joe Biden’s first 2024 debate while managing my aunt’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, I couldn’t help but see the similarities between them. I rushed home from a high school open house to catch the Kamala Harris debate, then found myself cooking dinner while she addressed the Democratic National Convention. It was an inspired moment of cautious hope and bewilderment as this election unfolded. Interwoven in the loops of this paper potholder, you’ll find simultaneous worry woven together on both national and personal levels. It was a hot mess.
CLOCKS GO FORWARD – Apple Music
CLOCKS GO FORWARD – Spotify
Click for song list for Clocks Go Forward – Future of Abortion Rights, 2024
This raffle wheel cut from a single Wall Street Journal from Daylight Savings Weekend, spins through 28 days of menstrual cycle “prizes”—physical symptoms and mental gymnastics.
LOCAL NATIVES
Time Will Wait for No One, 2023.
- Time Will Wait for No One
- Desert Snow,
- NYE
- Featherweight
- Hourglass
- Paradise
As I linger on in my reproductive years, I never know what the day and my body will bring. It feels like a raffle wheel with the worst prizes. Please feel free to spin the wheel, This artwork is interactive. You might find you might commiserate or feel validated. You might even gloat that you have graduated beyond the wheel! Once someone even landed on their corresponding day in their cycle!
I can’t help but be playful when the going gets tough. At least we can laugh while we are miserable.
Click for song list for Old Baby, Mad King – July 4th, 2025
A black and white American flag with alternating stripes of First Amendment text and critiques of the current administration’s impact on the state of our union.
SOUNDGARDEN
Superunknown, 1991. Bad Motorfinger,1991. (PASTING)
- Fell on Black Days
- Let Me Drown,
- Fresh Tendrils,
- Mailman,
- The Fourth of July.
RADIOHEAD; Kid A 2000 (WORD PUZZLES)
- Everything in it’s Right Place,
- The National Anthem.
I can’t help but be playful when the going gets tough. At least we can laugh while we are miserable. This summer I had seen the police support flag hanging on a tree outside my childhood home as a cyber truck drove up behind me. I could feel the passage of time and the change that comes with it. It’s about time I did a flag piece. Creating this work for this show, I was amazed I could find all the letters I needed for the First Amendment in white on black letters from a single newspaper. Working through a puzzle of July 4th weekend news, the headlines revealed questions that keep rolling around in my head. How does the “Big Beautiful Bill” serve Trump’s voting base? Is this a long “calm” before a tempest? How is this happening? How is this ok?
OLD BABY, MAD KING :Apple Music Playlist
OLD BABY, MAD KING :Spotify
Click for song list for A Bind – Banned Books Week, 2025
Banned books bound in a belt of collaged controlled language.
THE SMILE
A Light for Attracting Attention; 2022
- The Smoke
- Pana-Vision
- The Same
- Free In the Knowledge
The ongoing investigation of literature as inappropriate and harmful content asks: Cancel culture or narrow minded thinking? Enlightenment or pious censorship? Tolerance or too sympathetic to the morally objectionable. A scarlett letter denotes something tainted. Caution tape suggests there is danger here. A book belt, that once carried stories, now keeps reading under lock and key.
One newspaper search for all words flagged in government memos by the Trump Administration, from the weekend newspaper after Charlie Kirk’s death. A book belt, once a tool to carry our reading with us becomes an obstacle to reading and expression
Banned books from Artist’s Library