Tree Language

Homage to a profoundly influential book on the social implications of architecture. The background is made of patterns I acquired during research for my first job, as an assistant editor for the Vogue Sewing Book. This is where I applied and honed my skills at writing, re-writing, and page layout, and where I made my first efforts at textile collage. Teabag, hair, grasses, shreds of my mother’s letters, dress patterns, my calligraphy, fragment of disintegrating flat from Chicago Lyric Opera ca. 1890.

38"w x 50"
2004