Artist Statement:
While dealing with a Scleroderma diagnosis, which made my old ways of making impossible, I've been hand quilting, burning, and embroidering paper I eco-dye with local leaves. The intuitive quilts are fragile skins, maps to unknown places, and the shapes of cells under the microscope. I combine these small quilts with metal objects rescued from the scrapyard, which are bent, broken, rusted, and no longer able to perform their original uses.

Technique:
I used leaves to eco-dye paper (the paper is left over from bookbinding work I can no longer do, due to my illness). I cut the paper to fit the shape of a work of metal rescued from the scrapyard. I burned the paper with a soldering iron, then hand embroidered into the paper, intuitively following the marks made by eco-dyeing. Cut paper straws were hand-stitched to the surface. The finished paper quilt was hand sewn to the found metal using waxed linen thread and a modified bookbinding stitch.