Quilt & Fiber Art
Enveloping Darkness is the fourth and last in a series that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a thread painted portrait of my mother when she was about 82 years old. By that time the Alzheimer’s disease had enveloped her mind in darkness and was slowly…
Bittersweet Sixteen is a play on the “sweet sixteen” idea. It is a photograph of my mother Maxine when she was about 16 years old. Her future is ahead of her and she looks joyous. The bittersweet part comes as not knowing that her later years would be “bitter” with Alzheimer’s disease. …
This photo was taken of my mother when she was about 90 years old. One day while visiting her I just wrapped my red scarf around her neck and snapped her photo. She had Alzheimer’s and passed away a couple of years after this photo was taken. In the original photo there was a…