TEXTILES_00064c_Crossing Roads_2022

Crossing Roads
MOSAICS Series
fused
15″w x 30-3/4″h (each piece)
Fused commercial cottons
2022
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2022, fused, yellow, orange, brown
 

Statement:
The 3rd work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Crossing Roads is the personal discovery of the terrain of life. Like traveling over different terrains, life’s journey consists of crossing many roads that are full of turns, ups, downs, stops, starts, rough patches and smooth ones.


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TEXTILES_00064b_Seeing My Way Out of Blue_2021

Seeing My Way Out of Blue
MOSAICS Series
fused
16-1/4″w x 20″h
Fused commercial cottons
2021
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2021, fused, yellow, gold, blue
 

Statement:
The 2nd work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Seeing My Way Out of Blue represents the eventual transformation of a human being out of the muck and mire of life’s visceral levels into a deeper, psychic realm of existence.


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TEXTILES_00064a_Searching for Inner Code_2021

Searching for Inner Code
MOSAICS Series
fused
13-3/4″w x 20-1/4″h (each piece)
Fused commercial cottons
2021
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2021, fused, brown, black
 

Statement:
The first work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Searching for Inner Code represents the inner work that every person goes through to discover their own “code”.


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TEXTILES_00063_Ebony Sons Rising_2021

Ebony Sons Rising
PIECED Series
fused
18″w x 24″h
Fused commercial cottons and rayons. Metallic threads.
2021
QUILTS, Pieced Series, 2021, fused, black-white, grey, oranges, burgundy
 

IMAGE_ANGELA-HEATH_Ebony-Sons-Rising

Statement:

Ebony Sons Rising honors our black men, their struggles living in America and their enduring strength and resolve to rise.  This piece follows one of my studio tenets which is –
 
BENEVOLENCE
Webster’s dictionary defines benevolence as “the quality of being well meaning; kindness.”  
I aim to create art primarily to promote awareness and enlightenment of mankind.
 
While my artistic voice has historically been abstract, I realize that stories need to be told, candles need to be held up and lights need to shine.  To that end, I continue to strive in letting my unique light shine to tell the stories that enlighten and uplift mankind.

Details:

QUILTS_0057-2_Midst of Chaos Quilts_2020_Behind the Scenes

Midst of Chaos MNI-QUILT SERIES
COVID
QUILTS, Covid Series, 2020, pieces, wholecloth, blue, white, bleached copper kona cotton
Covid Series
2020

Abstract discharged fabric. Original design representing unity in the foreground with chaotic shapes in the background. Quilted with cotton and metallic threads.

Top Row, from left to right:
1) The Long Road
2) Sticking Together
3) Finding the Way

Bottom Row, from left to right:
4) When Paths are Clear and Unclear
5) Unity in the Midst of Chaos

Midst of Chaos Quilt collage

PAINTINGS_Ocean Water Waste Series_2020

Ocean Water Waste SERIES


Ocean Water Waste No. 1
WATER Series

Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
12″ square


Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020


PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white

Ocean Water Waste No. 2
WATER Series

Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
18″ square


Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020


PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white

Ocean Water Waste No. 3
WATER Series
Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
12″w x 24″h


Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020


PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white


Artist Statement

Ocean Water Waste depicts the huge problem of ocean or marine littering. I have made quite a few water paintings as water and land are my favorite earth elements. These three pieces are beautiful like our real oceans in spite of the litter dumped on them. This reminds me of our human spirit. Even when we are dumped on (esp. in pandemic times), our essence is still exquisitely beautiful.

This series honors our oceans and brings some attention to their degradation by pollution. Unfortunately, their exquisite beauty does not exempt them from reckless and the oftentimes negligent actions of their caretakers. I sincerely believe that our humanity is not only in our treatment of each other but in our treatment of the most precious resources entrusted to us.

QUILTS_0056_Waves_2017

Waves
QUILTS, Surface Design Series, 2017, digital wholecloth, aqua, white, black
Surface Design Series
2017
Abstract surface design. Design generated from stretching Sine waves in Photoshop. Quilted with cotton and metallic threads

Waves quilt (front view)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waves quilt (edge view)