BODY PARTS (ZEBRA PARTS, PAISLEY SLEEVE)
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2007 - 81" x 61"
dye and paint on silk, cotton, found fabrics, fused,
mono-printed, machine quilted

BODY PARTS is a sampler, with various patterns and painterly surfaces.  The recycling of clothing, including silk prints of the 80’s, incorporates the time capsule nature and thriftiness of traditional quilts, a type of recording of popular culture.

In this piece floral prints imply domesticity and decoration, while the wildly altered surfaces of animal prints offer a primitive connection to femininity and the sometimes hilarious whims of fashion.  As a girl who grew up sewing clothes, I have naturally identified these flat pattern shapes with parts of the female body.