In development: new or unfinished

Until now, I have been sewing buttons and buckles between layers of cloth, trapunto style, to form fossil-like impressions. Some appear to be freshly exposed artifacts; others are made to resemble columns of hieroglyphic symbols.

But real archaeological sites are often looted. So I have started cutting into my newly sewn pieces, 'looting' the artifacts and leaving dark, empty spaces.

These pieces are just finished and now hanging in

  the SpeakEasy Gallery

  817 Main St, Boonton, NJ

   During a recent trip to Turkey, I was amazed to see so many over-lapping layers of history:  Roman mosaics over Greek mosaics, walls built with the remains of previous temples, and names chiseled into stone and then scraped off by the next conqueror.

    Now, I am experimenting with various techniques to increase the textile layers of my art, as in these handkerchief pieces.

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My first attempt at looting the buried layers of buckles

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