National Museum of Women in the Arts: 2 works from 1970

These two works were created in early 1970 and are now part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Lake Bottom Seeds is a collage of two hand colored photographs that were machine stitched in a mylar pocket that contained white rayon "flock" and radish seeds. This pocket was stitched to a museum board along the top edge in such a way that it could be lifted, shook up, and the contents rearranged...to represent the silt that a swimmer would kick up in a Florida lake. Seeing all these things...she stored them in her medicine cabinet is a mixed media work with a photo-screen printed self portrait on silver spray painted paper, a drawing of a landscape, screen printed palm trees on vinyl, and magazine transfers of coins. Portions of this work were machine stitched over the drawing which was on artist's paper. These are both important early works of mine that exhibit themes I have continued to return to over the years including self-portraits and the Florida landscape.