LOVE LETTERS
(a series of works)

2003
LOVE LETTERS - 1: 50" X 47"
LOVE LETTERS - 2: 43.5" X 50.5"

Love Letters-1

Love Letters-2

cotton canvas, cotton, tulle metallic and rayon threads, tinsel hand painted and printed fabrics with fiber reactive dyes and textile paints collage construction machine stitching machine and hand quilting

X's and O's! What fun to play with such simple imagery. Then I thought of love letters and the symbolic meaning of those x's and o's. These compositions are very spontaneous and there's no deep or hidden meaning. The painted and printed fabrics used in these pieces were retrieved from my stash and some of them are at least ten years old! I save everything! As I worked on the first one, I started to "see" more, and thus, a series is born!

I think with these pieces that I am moving towards a more minimal compositional structure in my work. It may take awhile, for my work has been very complex for many years. I am thinking more and more of very stark "pictures" with limited color combinations and limited activity. It will be exciting to see how these thoughts evolve.