New Work in Process: 12 x 12 x 12 April 2026

I started my April 12x12x12 painting yesterday without any ideas about what to do. I pulled out various leftover pieces of fabric from other projects and thought about how to pair them. After well over a half hour, I decided to stitch two together so they can be trimmed down to 12" x 12" when I'm done. I'm using a piece with multiple colors leftover from my my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2023, and the turquoise strip at the bottom, with a little black paint on it, that I trimmed off my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting after I finished it in January. I'm giving myself some time to consider what I want to do next.

New Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026

 

This is the month of March for my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.

I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.

The base monoprinted grid is black, with Florescent Magenta background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work.

Under some individual days, there is a painted line of color to represent reasons that may lower or raise the number of steps I walked that day, such as snow, rainy, extreme hot or cold, illness, and vacation.

The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric.

The second image shows January through March and plenty of room for the rest of the year.

The Fence as Lace #14

Two friends who don’t know each other visited the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA this past weekend and sent me pictures of my painting, The Fence as Lace #14, which has been acquired by the museum and is on exhibit through sometime in December. It measures 95” x 62”. To explain the size, this picture is with one of my friends’ friend standing next to it. Thanks to both friends who sent me nice notes and photos!

New Work: 12 x 12 x 12 March 2026

 

March 12 x 12 x 12 includes the texture of a construction fence with skins of photos of snowbanks, from after the February 2026 blizzard in the Boston area, collaged over the oval "holes" in the fence (it's subtle). The black paint at the bottom around the ovals represents the street, green represents grass under the 2 plus feet of snow, and the blue represents the clear blue sky after the storm was over.

More New Work in Process: 12 x 12 x 12 March 2026

 

I outlined the ovals with the skins of photos of snow banks I collaged on the fabric for my March 12x12x12 painting. I have a little more painting to do and then I’ll be finished.

New Work in Process: 12 x 12 x 12 March 2026

 

I created some skins of photos I took of snowbanks. I haven’t worked with skins in many years. I’m excited to use them again.

Here are some in process pictures from tracing, cutting, and then gluing, the ovals cut from skins of photos of snow banks onto the stitched and then stiffened fabric for my March 12 x 12 x 12 painting.

New Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026

This is the month of February for my new Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.

I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.

The base monoprinted grid is black, with Florescent Magenta background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work.

Under some individual days, there is a painted line of color to represent reasons that may lower or raise the number of steps I walked that day, such as snow, rainy, extreme hot or cold, illness, and vacation.

The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric. 

Below shows January and February and plenty of room on this painting for the rest of the year.