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A Pandemic Collection

When the pandemic began, I started writing. I wanted to document what I was feeling, the confusion, disruption, and forced change in our lives. I sat here hoping that things would go “back to normal,” as the year wore on, I worked on my textiles, taught my classes on zoom, with my kids at home doing school, and my husband across from me, also on zoom. Although I have been making textiles and prints for coming up on six years, I was making my work previously, to a standard, or as we say in the classroom, obeying the “rules.”

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