Work-in-Progress: Cotton Hollow Body of Work

Working Title: “Bury Me in Cotton Hollow” “approx. 35″ x 75” monoprints, india ink, digital photographs, thread

***Upstream/Downstream***, 2024. 16.5″ x 21.” Watercolor made with brick collected at the site, gum arabic, and honey, on digital photo printed on Museum Cotton Rag

**Trace**

***Experiment #1:*** Collaborating with water and brick from the site.

Using brick collected at the site I made watercolor, with gum arabic and honey binder. I then painted at the site, en-plein-air, and then briefly dipped the painting in the water.

To see a short video of the water lifting the brick off the page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R6cXNq1u26b_Evdxku1_ga5aXsW9CpBt/view?usp=sharing

***Untitled/Cotton Hollow Quilting***, 2024. 18″ x 24.” monoprints, India ink, thread, historical photograph on Museum Cotton Rag.

initial experiment in sewing fragments together

***Disrupted Longing*** (a working title). 2024. 13.5″ x 24″ monoprints, India Ink, thread, photograph on Museum Cotton Rag

Studio Shot of work-in-progress
“Breach of Covenant” or “Three Large Miles into the Wilderness” (working titles) 72″ x 48″ monoprints, india ink, linen thread, marigold, sulfur cosmos, indigo ink, water-based screenprinting ink

“In 1639 the proprietors hired two surveyors. Starting at a point a little to the north of the present East Hartford line, the surveyors laid out 34 strips of land running east from the river “three large miles into the wilderness….the parcels varied in width from seven to 200 rods, probably according to the amount each proprietor had put up towards the original purchase price of Wethersfield…This survey of 1639-40 was the first official survey and layout of farms in Connecticut.” (p. 9, “Glastonbury: From Settlement to Suburb,” Marjorie Grant McNulty)