A friend came over one day feeling depressed. I had just taught a collage class the day before, and had all of my bins of scraps out on the dining room table…so we suddenly decided that art therapy was what she needed. She worked on a sad self portrait, and I decided to do a portrait too to keep her company. My portrait was entirely extemporaneous, with no plan at all, and I got the notion to bang out a few more. Three days later I had six portraits…all of nobody special, but all out of my head… so I decided they all had to represent me in some way. When I put them together they required a few written words of my own characteristics that I decided each one embodied.
2006. Approx 45"w x 66"h.
Materials: commercial cotton prints, metallic and novelty synthetic fabrics, novelty trims, Sulky variegated thread, tulle
Photo credit: Janet Orsi