Handcrafted Auguries, 2010-2015
“Found”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Found” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Found” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Found” (detail 3); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Effortless”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 18″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Effortless” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 18″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Effortless” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 18″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Faith Healer”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Faith Healer” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Gift”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Hypothetical”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 16″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Hypothetical” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 16″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Hypothetical” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 16″ x 1.5″; 2015
“Stubborn”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 14.5″ x 11″ x 1.5″; 2014
“Stubborn” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 14.5″ x 11″ x 1.5″; 2014
“Stubborn” (detail 3); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 14.5″ x 11″ x 1.5″; 2014
“It Knows in the Dark”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2011
“It Knows in the Dark” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Milestone”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Fragile Home 2″; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5”; 2011
“Missing Piece 2″; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5”; 2011
“Good Year”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Quiet”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Shelter”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Countdown”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Sleep”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″; 2011
“Flour-Speak”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Flour-Speak” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Flour-Speak” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Fragile Home 1″; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 24″ x 1.5”; 2010
“Fragile Home 1″ (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 24″ x 1.5”; 2010
“Missing Piece”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Missing Piece” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Missing Piece” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“March”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“March” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“March” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Song for the Lost”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Song for the Lost” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Song for the Lost” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Stillmore”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Stillmore” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Stillmore” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Three Tries”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Three Tries” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Three Tries” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Cynosure”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Cynosure” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Cynosure” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Two States”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Two States” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Two States” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Wish”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Wish” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Wish” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 20″ x 24″ x 1.5″; 2010
“First Core”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2009
“First Core” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2009
“Feather Lady”; Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Feather Lady” (detail 1); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
“Feather Lady” (detail 2); Hand-colored inkjet photograph on tea bags, mounted on wood; 24″ x 20″ x 1.5″; 2010
Handcrafted Auguries deals with my evolving themes of ritual, tradition, and inheritance, as they blend with nature and science. I find equal wonder in the traditional “women’s work” activities of baking and cooking as I do in studying geography, astronomy and biology. These images are created to express my curiosity, to satisfy my need for order, to celebrate the sacredness that imbues even the most mundane of objects. I strive to cross-breed the spiritual and the analytical, rather than separate them into two distinct languages.
Printing images onto teabags satisfies my personal conceptual concerns of working with a material that holds significance to me – the ritual of morning tea that I have observed since I was a child. I drink from every tea bag that is used, dry it, empty it, and digitally print a portion of the image onto it. Much like my training in traditional darkroom photography, the image is “developed”, in this case by hand, as I paint highlights, shadows and color into the image with watercolor crayon and pencil. The dried stains of the tea bag remain and are integrated, layers of visual texture are created, and the passage of time is implied.