Leave (The Nest)

Leave is about the outgrowing of old parts of one’s life. It is about leaving old nests of safety and making changes in mid-life. This bowl was constructed on the sewing machine by arranging, adding, and manipulating stripes of paper torn from old books. The images are hand embroidered; some are appliquéd. The birds look out of the old Inuit prints on the walls. There once they were mute witnesses, they now whisper “fly”.