This painting is a mixed media textile with screen printing and image transfer. It represents a sort of memory quilt and shows how my thoughts went wayward, randomly moving between memories. The blotches of color are my feelings, some happy (yellow), and others angry (red). This quilt highlights these "little talks" my father would have with my children, especially when they were really young. The largest picture was the last picture of my father before he passed away.
This is a diptych, lithograph collage with image transfer. There are two because when I think about my father, I worry that I will forget my memories of him. I worry that I would forget the sound of his voice, his handwriting, his face. He was a proud veteran of the US Navy, but I have no memories of him when he was out to sea. He missed the majority of my adolescent years being away at sea, and it angered me that he would have rather been away than at home. He was like a blip in my radar for those years of my life and I was angry about it. The crossword puzzles were the last things he wrote, so I kept them to remind me of something so simple as his handwriting. The Modest Mouse lyrics were seemingly appropriate for the feelings I had when creating this piece: "you wasted life, why won't you waste the afterlife?"