Crystal
2009 Crystal Installation consist of children clothing made from growing crystals onto crochet monofilament fabric. There are three rooms in the gallery, the first room the clothing is lit from below. The crystal forms on the wall are small fragments of cloth that also has grown crystals.
Ivory
2007-Three cast iron bathtubs filled with over 100 cast ivory soap dolls floating in water. With time the soap dolls will dissolve n the water. Nine digital prints of the soap dolls, height 40in width varies. The middle table is made of ivory soap with 4 dolls resting on them.
Candy
2007-25 cast bronze children’s shoes powdered coated sitting on silk pillows.
The Unbroken Circle
2007-Five red wooden boxes sitting on 12ft. circles made of 60 children outfits of canvas stitched together. 22 patterns on the walls treated with shellac and put up with 2500 brads, with silk screened words “Everyday in America” and “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in America.” Inside the boxes are alphabet blocks. Each box has a different statistic about children: 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1534 babies are born to teenage girls. The audience is encouraged to take off their shoes, walk on the clothing and open the boxes.
Discarded
2006-10 – 40″ (height) digital prints of discarded dolls. Each doll scanned at 1200 or 2400 dpi. The dolls are then arranged on the floor on white satin pillows.
All About Water
2005-105 yards of silk shibori dyed with 15 silk screened images of bacteria on the fabric, draped on the floor, with a pile of 4000 children shoe prints cast with Golden Paint Matte Gel, pallets used as walk ways into the gallery. Two buckets hung. The installation is about the 4000 children that die each day worldwide from contaminated water, the two buckets represent the amount of water per day a child would need to prevent illness.
Sweet
2004-25 pairs of cast sugar and corn syrup children shoes on paper towels. Diameter proximally 80in., height varies.
Life & Death in the Age of Innocence
2003-The building is 40ft x 10ft. x 13ft. of burnt pressed wood. Inside are 28 suspended hammocks depicting the 28 people that died in the fire at the Granite Mill in Fall River in 1874. Cut out patterns of 40 children clothing are shellac, placed on the walls with 2500 brads.
One Step for Our Children
2003-2,500 pairs of cast children shoe prints of matte gel and 105 images of children shoes
Remembering
2003-9 painted cloth dolls vacuumed formed onto beds with old innards of mattresses. Each bed is 12in. high and varies in size. 8-vacuumed formed imagines of the dolls from the beds are on the walls.
Adirondack Children
2002- Adirondack Children Chairs with muslin dolls and clothing painted with beeswax and oil paint. There are 22 Dolls: four sit on the floor in the front of the chairs. Each chair is 22in x 27in x 25in.
Displaying Our Children
2001-Five bronze cast outfits with furniture feet, cherry tables with bronze cast children feet, bronze cast toys on the tables. Each displayed on different flooring. Each section is 4ft. x 6ft. – height varies.
Foose Doll
2000-22 cast aluminum dolls with movable arms and legs. Steel, rods, stands and wheels. Audience can participate by moving the dolls with the wheels.
Inner Light of Children
2000-90 outfits of muslin coated with bees wax suspended from small frames in each alcove. Each outfit varies in size: the frames are about 32 in. x 22 in. x 1 in. The complete installation covers 30 ft. x 80 ft.
