Digital

          My “Body of Work” incorporates images from a series of routine medical tests I underwent over a brief period of time. Included are images from eye, mammogram, ultrasound, and bone density tests, and dental, chest, hand, hip, and knee x-rays. The focus of the x-rays became less routine when I received an artificial hip in 2011, and images of the blueprint of the implant and the implant are now part of the series.

            My eye images and dental x-rays are woven of hundred and hundreds of beads, but the majority of my images have been manipulated in Photoshop and digitally-printed on fabric, then pieced and quilted. I have done all the printing on my desktop Epson printer with the following exceptions: my skirt and vest were printed on an Epson 9800 with a 44-inch printing capability, and the newest pieces involving the hip implant were printed commercially by Spoonflower in Raleigh.

            I am drawn to the abstract nature of the medical imagery or the abstract nature I could create by repeating or manipulating the images whole or in part. I became aware of the beauty within each of us when I saw the digital image of my eye which was where this series began. What you see here is the result of my efforts to show the inner me.