Many things inspire me. The ones that stick, that beckon me to reinterpret and transform them, are transitory in nature. I delight in and hold a tight fisted fear of evolution; embracing change but fearing the absolutes that accompany it: life/ death, value/ inconsequence, messy/ clean, beautiful/ugly. My theatre background houses this process as an ongoing quest, a splash between the brackets, where I endeavour to live life as it reveals itself to me and continues its spin into the world.
Values
1. Respect for the environment: The most important value is to conserve waste by transforming what we already have before creating more.
2. Art is affordable: The second-place value is to make art and art design on clothing available to consumers who want it.
3. All women’s bodies are beautiful: The third-place value is to create clothing that celebrates all shapes and sizes of the female form.
4. Integrity: The fourth-place value indicates Dahlia Drive’s aspiration to create quality fashion that is based on conservation ethics and principles.
5. Vision: The fifth-place value is to print images and textures on slips which reflect the beauty of the female form while implying that which lives beneath and above the simple layer.
Art & History:
Thresholds & Rusted Paraphernalia
The garden gate, the lace tablecloth, the doily, and aged objects all evoke memories of my childhood and represent a more
Chagall
This is an ongoing project and my most exciting to date. I love Chagall and am intrigued by the translucent more
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci’s work is magnificent. His drawings not only reflect great artistic skill and intellectual brilliance but render a more
Ties
Old ties are not only well crafted, sometimes with the finest silk, but are endowed with a previous life; office, more
Marvin B
Double woven hand dyed rayon and silk A family sailed their boat to Alaska June through September 2001. Inside the more
Essential Insignificance
Using the contained, balanced form of the circle and a magnified vein of my ancestors, I illuminated a fragment of more
Feminine Beauty/Strength:
Wedding dresses
These dresses can be any brides’ “something old and something new”. Beautiful, elegant, personal and doesn’t cost an arm and more
Motherhood
When I think of slips, I think of my Mother. The curves defined by the slip accentuate the mothering lines: more
Nature:
Trees
I enjoy representing or including the natural world in my work. Trees and flower images are depicted in their more
Lotuses & Flowers
I enjoy representing or including the natural world in my work. Trees and flower images are depicted in their more
Fish
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Eve is the Garden
1 slip dyed in bronze fennel and rusted, 1 slip dyed in cochineal and rusted, jute, wheatgrass seed, sunlight, kelp more
Susan’s Bamboo Scarf
Wool silk, indigo, acid dyes, bamboo print, shibori I love bamboo, I don’t know why. I love Susan, she’s my friend. more
It’s a Girl
Procion H silk screened onto linen and silk. Wax resist, stencils, drawing ink, screen coat. I was inspired by a photograph more
Salmon Run
Wool, kelp, chicken wire, acid dyes, indigo. I am attracted to patterns, and the similar patterning of fish scales, chicken wire more
Breast Implants
Felted jute, wheatgrass seed, kelp fertilizer, water, sun I have always loved gardening; fresh air, aspirations of promise, budding uncertainty, food. more
The Venus Project
Copper wire, brass wire, bicycle tires, ribbon, pearls, air, scarlet runner beans, purple beans,soil, water, sunlight, time Inspired by the overt more
Process:
Kool Aid Dyeing
1. Koolaid will dye wool, nylon, silk, hair 2. Put koolaid powder and water in a pot. Enough water to cover more
Rust Stains
1. Get your fabric wet with white vinegar. 2. Wrap it up around or spread it out on rusting objects. (the more
Dyes and Recipes
Recycled materials will not allow me to become complacent in an established outcome; their history and mine create the boundaries more