DESCRIPTION
As I take regular walks through my Hyattsville, MD neighborhood and in South East, DC, where I work, I collect discarded beer and soda cans that have been flattened in traffic. I cleanse and transform unwelcome trash into painted masks mounted and framed or integrated into small quilts. The frames are recycled thrift shop finds that I paint to echo the themes of the masks and the quilts are made primarily from scraps salvaged from fashion production.