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HERMANN disperse dye print, 30" x 38" 2008	TARA 1 disperse dye print 24" x 21" 2007
DENISE disperse dye print, 12 inches square, 2007	ROSALIE disperse dye print, 12 inches square, 2007

CHRISTOS
disperse dye print, 12 inches square, 2007

SUGI
disperse dye print, 12 inches square, 2007

ALBANY
Inko dye on linen, using images taken in Albany, NY, in the 1980s, and a photogram of a weed.
11" x 18"

ABSTRACTED
Inko dye on linen, with my photograms as well as an 1880s science illustration. 11" x 9".

PORTRAIT
Inko dye on linen from one of my photographs, exposed
with posterized negatives. 8" x 11".

SILK CHIFFON SCARF
inkjet transfers in an Inko dye background. Images of Brewer's Black Birds.

SILK CREPE SCARF inkjet transfers of scanned flower, altered in PhotoShop, with painted dye.

SILK CHIFFON SCARF
inkjet transfers of scanned moth and buttons, with painted dye.

SILK SATIN SCARF
inkjet transfers of scanned button images.

FIBER ART EXHIBITION AT THE KLAMATH ART ASSOCIATION IN AUGUST 2006:
These pieces were all done in 2006. Some were printed at the Philadelphia
University Digital Printing facility from images that I created in
Photoshop -- mostly from my own photos, but some were from my family album,
and in the "Self-Portrait" piece, some were from photo machine photos or
pictures my father took of me. Many were done on my Epson printer at home,
and transferred piece by piece onto the fabric. Because the Epson inks are
pigment-based, the transfers can be washed and are relatively light-fast too.

SELF-PORTRAIT 2006
An inkjet transfer print onto cotton, 18 inches by 18 inches

FAMILY ALBUM, TIJUANA, 1928
This was printed with pigment inks on cotton on a large-scale inkjet print, and then painted at the top and bottom. That's all it says on the back, "Tijuana 1928," but I'm pretty sure that my uncle Homer is in the picture and my aunt Esther took it. It's about 30 inches by 20 inches.

ART CLOTH LEAVES (detail)
Two yards of silk with photo transfers of leaves,
painted with dye, and with crayon rubbings
from photo-relief plates (Solorplates).

DOROTHY WITH RED
An inkjet print with reactive dye on cotton,
printed on a large-scale inkjet printer, 3 feet
by 3 feet, six inches.

ART CLOTH SCISSORS
This piece is 2 yards, photo transfers and painted dye on cotton. Art cloth 1 detail: Detail of the art cloth scissors piece.

MASKED BOY, DETAIL
This is part of a larger work, that I am going to
quilt. The images were printed on fine cotton in my inkjet printer, the background is painted, with some photo transfer elements and raw edges.

Detail from yellow silk shirt, colored transfers

Silk crepe scarf with inkjet transfers of scanned buttons and thistles, 60 x 10 inches

Portrait, inkjet transfer onto cotton, quilted, 10 x 8 inches

SCISSOR SHIRT
Silk and linen shirt with inkjet transfers of scanned scissors and photos of hands

HELEN MASKED
heat transfer from color copies
on cotton 12 x 16 inches

ED
an Inko dye print on cotton with stitching,
3 x 5 inches

ROSALIE
Inko Dye print on silk, 10 x 8
inches

JIM
an Inko dye print on cotton, with dye painting and stitching, quilted, 28 x 36 inches

SKELETON ONE
heat transfer from color copies on cotton
6 x 7 inches

MOTHS
handcolored black and white laser print on cotton 8 x 5 inches

SMILES
Inko Dye print on cotton with embroidery
10 x 10 inches

SELF PORTRAIT
photo transfers from various photos of myself,
many of which I took as well, some of which
are from my childhood. These are inkjet
transfers from my Epson printer on a piece
of a damask tablecloth. It is about
2 1/2 feet square.

SELF PORTRAIT, DETAIL
In this close-up, you can see a little of the
flowery woven pattern in the fabric,
which you see only from some angles as
you look at the work.

FAMILY ALBUM, RENE AND HER FRIEND
A disperse dye print transferred to polyester satin, with Jacquard Fabric paint rolled on around the edges. The final size is 5 feet by 3 1/2 feet. Rene is my grandmother, and the picture
was taken in the mid-1920s.

JC
This was done with a central image of disperse dye on sheer polyester, set with a heat press, the background painted with Inko dye, and inkjet transfer images across the bottom. It is mounted around a deep frame, with a dark fabric background about 4 inches in back of the central image, so that when you walk by, the glittery designs on the background seem to move behind him. (The head has a backing, so that you don't see the shiny patterns through his head.)

DETAILS OF SILK PIECE
Detail of inkjet transfer on silk. The image was a scan of a sunflower and there are some areas painted with dye. 10" x 8".