45”H x 39”W    2023

“Why I Wake Early” has been juried into the SAQA Regional exhibit, “Awakening.’ It will travel throughout 2024-2025. It is available for purchase, with delivery available after the exhibit concludes.

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make morning,” writes Mary Oliver. To her observations, I add my own: sun at first blush backlighting branches. Then illuminating the grass. Then, I imagine, reaching below to roots and invisible goings-on underground, transforming that world as well. All interconnected. All held in “the great hands of light.” I wake early and begin most days accompanied by coffee and a few favorite poets (Mary Oliver among them) watching the morning sun do its work.

This work includes elements of hand printmaking, (stencil, monotype, screen printing) and direct painting on fabric. After I create the individual sections, I stitch them together to create the composition and machine quilt the entire surface.

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