At a time in art history when most art quilters are using hand-dyed and heavily surface-manipulated fabrics, I combine commercial fabrics and innovative piecing to express a vision or moment in time. The message can be serious, humorous, or both.

To deepen the imagery, each quilt contains self-authored machine embroidery, free-form quilting, and a title. I believe that computer-generated stitches and images are particularly important to the current development of the quilt art medium.

My titles are important in a different way; they are succinct Haiku and key to discovering the meaning of the quilt.

The art couples an individual sense of design with technique to create an abstract vision in metaphorical layers, much like the layers of a quilt. Through these devices, the miniature Plum Dragon speaks on many different levels; it is up to the viewer to hear them.
 

Quilt History: In Studio Art Quilt Associates 40th anniversary trunk show, Section C, 2009-10, where it traveled broadly throughout the U.S.
Archived in the permanent collection of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.
Quilts were chosen, said art quilt expert and curator Sandra Sider, because they represent "a particularly distinctive or original approach."
They are now available to researchers and students as a record of the art quilt in 2009.

Collection of Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA