Welcome to my new studio and gallery space. The walls and trim are painted. The track lighting is hung. The white carpet is relaid in. Now it's time to get back to creating artwork! |
Two System Overloads, a Terminal Eyestrain, and a Mixed Media hang to the left of the large set of windows. |
A trio of Mixed Media Computer Collages hang above my computer station. |
 A System Overload, a Fried Circuits, and a Motherboard Meltdown hang to the right of the large windows. |
Cyber Chick's thinking about 'hanging ten' on her digital surf board. |
The 'ariel' view of the Computer Collages that before hanging. (Several are now out for exhibition.) |
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Who else would take a break from boat bottom painting by quilting out of the
back end of a truck? That's what happens when exhibition deadlines are looming.
When Peter snapped this shot, I was 'embellishing'
Techno Jam V1.3: Cranberry Orange Jelly
with standard size and mini CD's. One of the reasons my fiber art is generally less than 24" is because it must remain quickly portable, and have the ability to be tucked away in a moments notice. To accommodate life on a sailboat, I use tupperware like containers to hold my threads, beads, tools, and fabrics. It's not enough to keep things from spilling out when we're healing; I've also got to be conscious about sea spray. Several of my quilts have been created on board Fandango as we cruise up and down the East coast. "Spring Street, Center City, Philly" was completely made during our fall '00 cruise of the Chesapeake. It hung in the Art/Quilt Magazine booth at IQA Festival 2000 in Houston. |
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In early June of 2002, we sailed our
Mariner 36 Fandango
from the boatyard Bass River, NJ (near Atlantic City) to our homeport of
Spray Beach, Long Beach Island, NJ. The voyage took four hours so I pulled
out some handwork. That's Valentine
Bouquet in my hands. Tote bags and the wicker basket work well for bringing my supplies from the cabin to the cockpit to the beach. Peter has built special storage bins for my materials in the v-berth. He's currently renovating the forward cabin to triple the shelving space. Below is an interior cabin shot where I'm working on Hall's Hobies up forward in the v-bunk where we sleep. Buzz-Cat's peeking out of her favorite cabin.  |
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| A wide-eyed Buzzy supervised the machine piecing of the binding for Hall's Hobies. | Fandango under spinaker up in Cape Cod -I'm on the bow waving to you! |
| At 21-years our Tonkinesse
"Buzz-Cat"
thought she was still a kitten. She played any chance she got. (That is, when she was not begging for tuna, or to be
let outside, or catnapping, or shuffling papers, or supervising her people.) We miss her very much.
She was a well travelled cat. When we cruise on our Mariner 36 Fandango, we took her with us. She went to Long Beach Island, Atlantic City, Cape May, New York City, Long Island, Block Island, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Newport, Bristol, off the coast of New Jersey, down past Delaware and Maryland, made the turn in Virginia and headed up the Chesapeake Bay. |
 Sunset Barnegat Light, NJ 7/7/01.
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