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Artist Statement
My family immigrated to the United States from England in 1951, before I was born, and bought a house in a suburb of Los Angeles, California. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that we lived outside. The house was small and lacked central air conditioning, so it was more comfortable in the backyard. Important things happened here, some etched into my memory and some prompted by the hundreds of photos my grandmother took in the front and back yards. She was a master gardener, and my grandfather could build anything, so it was a stunning garden.
Materials and Techniques
Scroll book: Fused cotton fabric, painted and gel-plate printed by the artist and cut by hand and manual die-cut machine. Story and house/garden plan inkjet printed on silk and sewn to cover, then mesh added to cover. Wrapped around an antique silk mill spool and tied with a ribbon.