Portfolio > Drawings: Fresco Mementos

The drawings, using images of early renaissance frescoes, are embellished and altered with stitching.
The pieces are post card sized mementos that refer to the past when, as the norm, women were taught to sew or cook and weren't meant to be painters.
The pieces also reference the process of sketches used in fresco design, the comfort of recognizing an art work first known through reproductions, the idea that memories change and over time become something new, and the nostalgia of childhood sewing cards.

#24 lorenzetti maestà reliquary
book plate, embroidery floss, fabric, on styrofoam
9" x 9" x 1"
2019
#37 lorenzetti reliquary
book plate, embroidery floss, fabric, gold pins and gold tacks on styrofoam
14.5" x 10" x 1"
2019
vera croce: #11
book plate, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
vera croce: 7
book plate, graphite, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
vera croce: 10
book plate, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
vera croce: 13
book plate, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
vera croce: 9
book plate, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
vera croce: 3
book plate, graphite, embroidery floss
6.5" x 8.5" (framed)
2018
scrovegni: deposition
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2019
scrovegni: kiss
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: temple
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: birth
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: wedding
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: flock
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: announcement
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018
scrovegni: dream
watercolor, acrylic, thread on watercolor paper
5" x 7"
2018