I Guess You Had to Be There
These embroideries and rugs are created with flosses that I naturally dyed. The dyes come from wood shavings, flowers, roots and insects. Many of these plants were grown and foraged in Oklahoma.
The images in this series come from a vintage Polaroid camera; chosen precisely because it doesn’t deliver perfect reproductions. Instead, I get something often flawed, but beautifully tinted and serendipitous. In the case of vintage technologies and plant derived colors, light, weather, temperature, and location all come together to determine the results.

Tallgrass Prarie Panorama, cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2025, 8" x 5"

"Junkyard CAT", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2024, 3" x 4"

"Dock Repair: Spavinaw", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2024, 3" x 4"

"Cowboy Church: Mounds", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2024, 3" x 4"

"State Line: They left the Old State Sign", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2024, 3" x 4"

"Mounds", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton embroidery floss, 2024, 3" x 4"

"Spavinaw Dam", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton yarn, 2024, 12" x12"

"Broken Dock", cotton fabric, natural dyes, wool, silk and cotton yarn, 2024, 12" x12"