Mamma Gaia Pieta
The Pieta motif has long captured me. A mother mourning her child who was sacrificed for a larger cause brings to mind issues of the injustices related to the death. In many ways, the motif has moved beyond its Catholic origin as artists have appropriate it to address other political issues, such as Kathe Kollwitz’s depicting the horrors of war through a mother crying over her dead child or Rene Cox’s “Yo Mama’s Pieta” photograph of a Black mother cradling her dead son. In my Pieta I was thinking about our current realities of global warming and the victims of what humans are doing to our earth. The human-caused poisoning hurts all of Mother Earth’s children, and she mourns.

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Fiber Art Now. Fiber Reimagined II
Juried Exhibition in print.
Vol 13. Issue 3.  
​Summer 2024


Dad, Disappearing

My dad was diagnosed with dementia about one and a half years ago. We had noticed that his memory and understanding had deteriorated over the pandemic lockdown, but it did not register that it was dementia, like his mother before him. This last year has been like he is disappearing before my eyes, both physically and mentally. His body is shrinking in on itself, growing smaller. His past and present blending, thoughts and memories fluttering away, as butterflies in the wind.​