Back for a second edition in 2021, I created a suite of six collages for Wally Workman Gallery, this time imagining them as a neighborhood with characters old and new. These quilted homes started sewn up and protected from the outside world, like a child covered in a cozy blanket. Then, with the reopening in the spring of 2021 following the availability of vaccines, I began cutting out doors and windows and letting the houses bloom. As COVID ebbs and flows, these houses represent the duality of wanting to protect ourselves but also the need to open our doors and connect again with our community, friends, and loved ones.
The 2021 Portfolio Box, Neighborhood, comes in a handmade engraved clamshell box with museum gloves and artist statement. Available at Wally Workman Gallery.
Neighborhood, 2021