WATERCOLOR RONDOS (1-12)

2024 - 2025 Watercolor and embroidery on paper

9 x 9 inches $180.00 each



This series began in meditation. In stillness, images would appear—shapes of color and energy that felt both intimate and expansive. For a long time, I carried them quietly. Once I discovered how watercolor and embroidery could work together, the images poured out, one after another, until there were twelve.

Each rondo begins with watercolor, the first breath of energy. The thread follows, grounding the form, before paint returns to merge pigment and fiber into a living field. The circle mirrors the cycles I feel in meditation—expansion, contraction, and renewal.

These rondos map the expanded chakra system, not as rigid symbols, but as possibilities. They invite you to notice your own inner rhythms and remember that balance, like breath, is always within reach.

CHAKRA HANDS (13–24)

2024 - 2025 Embroidery on felt and fabric

9 x 11 inches $95.00 each



The idea of hands emerged while working with the Lansdowne community to design a street mural. Together, we imagined hands as symbols of care—slowing traffic, protecting one another, and holding space for community. That mural went on to win an award for public design, and the image of hands stayed with me.

When I turned back to my own studio practice, it felt natural to bring that imagery into my exploration of the chakra system. In these embroidered works on felt, each pair of hands cradles a complex chakra form, holding energy as something powerful yet tender, within reach.

The tactile surfaces—thread, felt, fabric—remind me that energy is never abstract. It moves through our bodies, through the gestures of giving and receiving, protecting and offering. These hands invite you to imagine your own: what energies you carry, what you nurture, and what you choose to release back into the world.

100 DAY PROJECT

The idea for connecting chakras with hands grew out of the street mural I created with the Lansdowne community, where hands became a symbol of care and protection. That image stayed with me, and when I joined the 100 Day Project—a worldwide creative challenge where artists commit to making something every day for 100 days—I knew I wanted to carry it forward into my own practice.

I set myself the challenge of creating 100 pieces to deepen my understanding of the expanded chakra system. Each day I stitched, painted, or experimented, and slowly the work revealed itself. What began as discipline became joy—a rhythm of making that connected meditation, imagery, and process.

It wasn’t always easy, but it was wonderfully grounding. By the end, I had not only completed the challenge but also laid the foundation for an entirely new body of work. Chakra Hands became more than a project; it opened the door to new directions in my art and my way of understanding energy as something both powerful and intimately human.

WATERCOLOR EMBROIDERIES

2025 Watercolor and embroidery on paper.

17 x 17 inches $250.00 each



At first glance, these works may seem simple, but creating them was anything but. Stitching into watercolor paper with an embroidery machine demanded enormous patience. Hooping the paper without tearing it was especially difficult, and more than once the process ended in failure. Yet each setback asked me to pause, breathe, and return—a rhythm not unlike meditation itself.

Over time, persistence carried me through. After many trials, the technique began to settle, and the images slowly took form. The result is a comprehensive set of four pieces—delicate yet resilient, fragile yet grounded. I also discovered that sometimes it is easier to work on a larger scale, where the materials seem to breathe with more freedom.

These embroideries became more than technical experiments. They are reminders that energy moves in cycles of resistance and release, and that wholeness often arrives through the willingness to begin again.

EXPANDED REACH

Acrylic on tissue paper and board with embroidery on tulle overlay 24 x 36 inches $800.00



Expanded Reach, the largest single work in this exhibition, carries a long and winding process history. It began with stitched tissue paper applied to board, a surface both fragile and strong. Onto this, I painted twelve circles to represent the expanded chakra system.

My original intention was something entirely different, but what finally emerged surprised me. That’s the exhilarating—and sometimes unsettling—part of making art. You can begin with a clear picture in your mind, but the real work is staying open, allowing creativity to move through you in unexpected ways.

This piece is a reminder that the process itself is alive. By letting go of control and trusting the flow, I was able to catch what wanted to come into being.

WITHIN REACH

Embroidery on felt with metal base.

10 x 2 x 2 inches $250.00 each



This series of small hand sculptures—embroidered on felt and mounted on metal bases—began with a spark of excitement. The very first experiments filled me with joy, and I knew I had discovered something worth pursuing. Once the process was formalized, it was only through the discipline of daily practice that I was able to bring all twelve sculptures into being.

What made this series especially meaningful was the collaboration with my husband, who designed and crafted the metal bases. These little stands gave the embroidered hands their presence and strength, transforming them into complete works. The process reminded me how much better everything becomes when shared—he makes every part of my life richer, even my art.

RISING CHAKRAS

Watercolor and embroidery on paper.

18 x 18 inches $360.00 each

The Rising Chakra collection brings together three chakras within each rondo, layered with the elemental energies that flow through them. Alongside these forms, wildflowers appear—each one carrying its own quiet power.

For me, wildflowers are not just beautiful; they are teachers. On my morning walks through the fields, I notice their energetic blooms—how they rise, how they bend, how they return season after season. They seem to call me to look closer, to listen, to learn.

In these works, chakras and wildflowers intertwine, offering maps of energy that are both inner and outer, human and earthly. Together, they remind us that vitality is always rising, rooted in the ground beneath us and blossoming into the world.

ULTRAVIOLET HANDS

2023 - 2025

Embroidery on tulle with two metal and wood stands

Dimensions variable $800.00 each

Ultraviolet Hands has undergone transformation since it was first shown in my retrospective at Olin Hall Gallery in 2023. I was never fully satisfied with how I had finished the work, and it stayed with me—quietly asking to be revisited. These are, in terms of embroidery, some of my most ambitious pieces. After much thinking, pondering, and meditating, I felt ready to confront them again.

The long embroidered arms reach outward without any internal support, making them feel ethereal, almost fragile. In this reincarnation, each chakra grouping is steadied by two metal stands (thanks to David), which function like Salvador Dalí’s crutches—those strange, dreamlike props that hold up the collapsing forms in his paintings. Here, the supports give the work both grounding and tension, a balance between the ephemeral and the anchored.

My vision was for the hands to reach out to us. For me, they carry the sense of friends or beloved relatives on the other side—reaching through to help, to comfort, to support. Such beliefs may not be widely held in the Western world, but I carry the conviction that the departed are still within reach.

These works hold that faith in stitch and thread, inviting us to feel what it means to be touched across boundaries—between life and death, presence and absence, seen and unseen.

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY

Embroidery thread, on wool felt

2 @16 x 20 inches $1,200.00

Created in 2024, Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography documents the highly complex process used to make computer chips for quantum computing. This embroidered work was featured in my exhibition Machine Memory and Motherboards at Artspace, Richmond, VA and A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

The design began with a scientific drawing of the lithography process, which I layered with the chakra system—represented here through the color spectrum. In this way, the work merges two languages of energy: one from advanced technology, the other from ancient systems of healing and balance.

Ultraviolet light itself is immensely powerful. In industry, it enables the creation of artificial intelligence through the manufacture of chips. For humans, it also resonates as a force of transformation and healing. In this piece, I consider how that same energy flows between machines and bodies, science and spirit, pushing us to reflect on what it means to work with such potent light.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BODY

Archival Digital print with embroidery on tulle overlay

16 x 36 inches $700.00

Emotional Intelligence Body continues my long investigation into labor, technology, and the unseen systems that shape our lives. The work overlays chakra embroidery onto a digital figure, suggesting the possibility—and the absence—of a soul within artificial beings.

In many ways, this piece is a direct descendant of The Bimbo Borg, the digital superhero I created during my doctoral research in 2004. Back then, I imagined a cyborg woman who could labor without end, long before AI became part of everyday conversation. Today, with artificial intelligence rising around us, I find myself returning to the same questions:

Can digital creatures ever hold consciousness? Can they ever experience the fullness of human emotion? Or will their so-called “emotional intelligence” only ever be an imitation—like empathy without a heartbeat?

The chakra system in this work serves as both a map and a veil, pointing to what is missing. It asks us to consider not just the future of machines, but also our own humanity, and what it truly means to feel.