Commissioned for a private client's front entry. The family's names are included in the columns of "text".

Artist's Statement:
In 1896 a cache of 50,000 papyrus documents, some 2000 years old, was discovered buried 30 feet deep in rubbish mounds in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. These documents represented 1000 years of daily records, including inventories, news, jokes and pornographic novels. They are now housed at Oxford University.

The Archeology series is inspired by the idea that our own documents may someday be uncovered. The columns of stitches reference the amount and spacing of columns in the New York Times. Although the artifact is not decipherable, the aged gold patina optimistically infers value and wisdom. The piece invites you to imagine living in 4010, and upon viewing it to contemplate messages from the past. What value can you glean from the writings of those ancient peoples?

www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/14/segments/58897

Techniques- quilted, shrunk, frayed, stenciled, painted, metal leafed
Materials- Linen face, cotton gauze back, bamboo batting, cotton, rayon and poly threads, paint, metal leaf

Accepted for the Studio Art Quilter Associates Show, Frontiers: Art Meets Science, this triptych will travel to Birmingham, England in August of 2010, then to The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA and then to Pfizer in NYC.