We The People
This series focusing on turning presidents and other stoic leaders found on currency into everyday working class people. Fishermen, firemen, hunters, nurses, doctors, cops, and cowboys can all been found in larger uncut sheets of money within a whimsical embroidered scene. The rich textures of the forest, water and lots of blood splatter make up the imagery found in ‘We The People’.
Clowns and Costumes
This costume party dreams up notorious figures wearing character altering costumes. These hand embroidered costumes are meticulously stitched through paper currency to create a fantastical illusion. Wizards, lions, carrots and of course clowns are all depicted in this playful series questions the history of worldly leaders we often feel like we already know.
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." - Charlie Chaplin.
Snakes, Spiders, Bats and Webs
Slithering and crawling their way through historic monuments on banknotes, these snakes, spiders and bats are creeping around this paper money.
Fires, Fences and Punks
Chaos takes over federal institutions and imagery found on US banknotes in this aggressive anarchists series. Needling the banknotes with fences and setting the signing of the Declaration of Independence on fire are all stitched symbols of fighting against control. Themes of rebellion lye at the heart of this collection.
"They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same." - Kurt Cobain
Obsolete Bills
The Obsolete Bill series hand stitches vintage American paper money from 1782 to 1866 issued by state banks prior to federal banknotes. This series plays with the imagery I have developed in other series reimagined on the gorgeous designs of these beautiful bills.
Patterned Bills
The beginning of my stitched bills started in 2006 with sewing patterns onto money. Stitches of thread represented seconds on the clock as this minuscule money was laboriously stitched through. The embroidery beautifies this disregarded currency while simultaneously destroying its function.