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My work is narrative and explores environmental and social issues. I use embroidery to communicate quantitative information in an unusual combination of stitched text and graphics. My art provides a novel opportunity to consider the scientific and historic context inherent in current events and social questions. These two works examine geophysical climate issues. After hiking with scientists to measure Yosemite National Park's last glacier, the Lyell Glacier, I embroidered the glacier's topographic lines next to historical glacier photos and texts from 19th century explorers' journals. Recently I've participated in two artist/scientist projects. For the University of Wisconsin's Department of Linmology, I used invasive species and native fish population data, historical records of lake ice and chemistry, to embroider several large silk and brocade graphs. For a project with the University's Center For Biology Education, I used atmospheric field equations and ice core records, photographs of ice caves, and graphics of an ozone hole, for embroideries on brocade and silk. A quote from the early 20th century Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is embroidered on velvet. |
