Please Touch 2026

The sculpture is a large, surreal ceramic queen’s head, approximately twice life-size. It is covered primarily in glossy glazes in shades of pale blue, accented with bright colors and metallic details. The facial features are arranged in unusual ways: the face has three eyes, two abstracted noses, and one mouth. There are two eyes toward the left side of the face positioned one on top of the other. The top left eye has a circular hole where the pupil and iris would be, with radiating colorful rays that fill the almond shape of the eye. The lower left eye has a circular hole in the center as well, surrounded by a matte vermilion glaze. A single eye on the right side of the Queen’s face has a glazed starburst of various bright colors in a recessed center, surrounded by white. All three eyes are edged with golden eyelashes. One protruding nose shape is a glossy light blue color. The other abstracted nose is a golden, somewhat triangular relief shape. The surface of this shape is flat and glossy. The singular mouth located in the lower half of the Queen’s face was glazed with matte glazes in deep mauve and vermilion. At the base of the head is a white neck collar with a curvy, undulating border. There are two relief flowers adorning the face that appear to be falling downward. They have gold stems, blue petals, and matte vermilion leaves. One of the flowers has a circular hole at the center, surrounded by its petals. There are several textured golden tears or drips on the face, as if the Queen is crying. The head wears a pointed bluish-white crown with recessed shapes carved into the band of the crown, such as triangles, diamonds, and ovals. The ceramic hair is rough and textured with deep grooves combed into the clay. The light blue hair has many large patches of gold luster glaze, especially around the border of the face."

This artwork is a highly textured, textile piece that combines sof felting, intricate beadwork, thread embroidery, and is surrounded in a wooden frame. The backdrop heavy carve consists of soft, fibrous felted wool. The upper portion (the sky and water) feels slightly dense and fuzzy, scattered with tiny, raise glass seed beads that feel like cold, hard droplets resting on top of the soft fleece. In the foreground on the left and center, thick, twisted brown strands form the gnarled branches and tendrils of a tree or vine. Perched upon one of the prominent branches, the heron stands out with intricate beadwork. Running your fingers over the bird, you feel the sleek, raised rows of fine beads forming its slender body, long neck, beak, and legs. Its outstretched wings are densely encrusted with tiny blue and white glass beads, creating a cool, pebbled texture that stands out sharply against the soft background."

Cycles is a wall mounted piece created using two sizes of dark steel wire. The artist uses thick wire and wraps thinner wire around it, creating a tube like structure that organically wraps and curves around itself to create an abstract form. This black wire sculpture is presented vertically against a plain white background, featuring three distinct overlapping oval loops that cascade downward in sweeping tiers. The uppermost loop forms a broad, slightly tilted oval rim, while two additional crescent-shaped loops curve underneath, creating large open negative spaces within the piece. Each tubular band is formed by two thicker outer wire borders bridged together by dense, parallel strands of thinner wire, giving the metallic loops a delicate, ladder-like webbed texture. The structure casts soft, subtle shadows onto the white wall behind it, emphasizing its airy and multi-layered composition. It is mounted to the wall using a hook. Viewers can remove the sculpture from the hook and hold it in their hands to feel the weight of the piece."

This wall mounted relief cast glass sculpture contains relief imagery of bubbles, star-like forms, the pattern of a pressed tin ceiling and science class lab safety goggles. The sensation of feeling the safety goggles amidst the teaming life of bubbles and stars over top of the underlying pattern of pressed tin is to be a metaphor of seeking one's own place is a world of seeming chaos played on top of the structure of a pattern. A pursuit, but with the caution and wherewithal to seek with caution. For sighted viewers, the piece is an illuminated artwork of bright colors that dramatically shift as the viewer walks past the piece."

The front is a beautiful wooden chest plate, the back side is heavily scarred. The scars of the female experience whether it be breast cancer, a transgender person and their surgery, or the scars from being a woman in society. It has a strap so people can wear the chest plate, feel the weight in the strap slightly pulling their body down, the ridges of the scars against their body rough, uncomfortable. "

This is the head of a creature who once roamed in the millions across our land. Feel the rough,shaggy coat that protects him all winter, while he survives by digging for grass under the snow! Amazing!"