Dog days: Neotibicen canicularis

2026

Ballpoint pen on cotton, wool, nylon, canvas, and silk stained and dyed with Tennessee clay and homemade natural dye made from wild muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia) fruit and leaves. With layers of applique, embroidery thread, cheesecloth shaped with methylcellulose, scavenged quilting fabric, childhood sleeping bags, and exoskeletons of dog-days cicadas from east Tennessee

95 x 130” 

Scavengers III

2026

Items collected from remote areas of Pacific coast in Oregon: clothing, sea shells, plastic, styrofoam, rope, rocks, sea glass, drift wood, crab shells, animal bones

Approximately 200 × 170”