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The New Vein series is comprised of dried, gessoed leaves and plastic bag fragments hand-stitched to paper. An on-going project since 2005, it's a 21st century riff on the herbarium— a collection of preserved plant specimens used for study and analysis. But I've corrupted the botanist's intentions by seamlessly merging highlighted aspects of a leaf's structure with the ubiquitous graphic designs found on plastic bags. My renderings are a nod to the increasingly blurred distinction between natural and man-made, but in another regard, my sewing is a way of mending— not repairing holes, but making 'wholes' from such disparate parts.
NV#8 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
NV#9 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
NV#2 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
NV#66, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#73, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
Fold, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 14 x 11 inches
NV#60, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#75, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#74, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#68, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#31, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#72, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#76, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV #35, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV #7 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
NV #71, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV #3, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#52, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 12 x 9 inches
NV#5 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
NV#6 LG, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 13 x 10 inches
Mezzaluna, leaf, gesso, plastic bag, Flashe paint, thread on paper, 20 x 15 inches
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