READ THREAD, READ THROUGH
Langham Cultural Centre Gallery
Installation Kaslo, BC
Oct 9-Nov 22, 2025
MARRIAGE BOX ONE, a+b: Dura-lar, freshwater pearl, rebar tie, galvanized steel, copper wires. Handmade fir boxes, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm) Pair: 6” x 7” x 3” (15.2 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm), 2015
![[Detail] MARRIAGE BOX ONE, b:
rebar tie wire, galvanized steel and copper wires. Hand-made fir box, artist acrylic paint and varnish
3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm), 2015](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5255ad64e4b0989fbaee8f1f/77a997de-6a3e-4d9d-b2e6-6105e25a7b72/045_HiResJpeg.jpg)
[Detail] MARRIAGE BOX ONE, b: rebar tie wire, galvanized steel and copper wires. Hand-made fir box, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm), 2015
MARRIAGE BOX FOUR, a+b: Dura-lar, drawing on vellum, rebar tie, galvanized steel, copper wires, Flashé paint on wire fencing. Hand-made fir boxes, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm) Pair: 6” x 7” x 3” (15.2 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm). 2015
MARRIAGE BOX FIVE, a+b: Dura-lar, silver leaf on screen printed silk organza, rebar tie, galvanized steel, copper wires, Flashé paint on wire fencing, pearl button. Hand-made fir boxes, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm) Pair: 6” x 7” x 3” (15.2 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm). 2015
MARRIAGE BOX FIVE, a+b: Dura-lar, silver leaf on screen-printed silk organza, Flashé paint on wood dowel, rebar tie, galvanized steel, copper wires, Flashé paint on wire fencing. Hand-made fir boxes, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm) Pair: 6” x 7” x 3” (15.2 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm).
MARRIAGE BOX SEVEN, a+b: Dura-lar, Flashé paint on wire fencing, rebar tie, galvanized steel, copper wires. Hand-made fir boxes, artist acrylic paint and varnish 3” x 7” x 1 1/2” (7.6 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm) Pair: 6” x 7” x 3” (15.2 x 17.7 x 3.8 cm). 2015
MATRIMONIAL BED WITH SHARED GALAXY: Coverlet/Mattress: Cotton butter cloth, habotai silk top, tulle batt, ribbon, ‘pearls,’ red poly spider writing backing, hand sewn. Box Spring: Styrofoam support, nylon cover. Spherical ‘legs’: rebar tie wire. 58” x 48” (147 cm x 122 cm), 2015
![[Detail] MATRIMONIAL BED](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5255ad64e4b0989fbaee8f1f/21a2cd04-f562-4b41-a37e-c6073d6495cd/019_HiResJpeg.jpg)
[Detail] MATRIMONIAL BED
![[Detail] MATRIMONIAL BED:
Coverlet/Mattress: Cotton butter cloth, habotai silk top, tulle batt, ribbon, ‘pearls,’ red poly spider writing backing, hand sewn.
58” x 48” (147 cm x 122 cm), 2015](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5255ad64e4b0989fbaee8f1f/1e230805-5c08-477c-8531-804175283764/011_HiResJpeg.jpg)
[Detail] MATRIMONIAL BED: Coverlet/Mattress: Cotton butter cloth, habotai silk top, tulle batt, ribbon, ‘pearls,’ red poly spider writing backing, hand sewn. 58” x 48” (147 cm x 122 cm), 2015
THREE GALAXIES Rebar tie wire, white selvedge edge ball. Large: 14 ½” (37cm) dia., Medium: 10” (26cm) dia., Small: dia. 6” (15 cm) dia. 2015
SHARED RED THREAD GALAXY: Rebar tie wire, red knit narrow good, handmade and found springs, fake pearls 22 ½” (57cm) dia., 2015
![[Detail] SHARED RED THREAD GALAXY:
copper spring, red ribbon](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5255ad64e4b0989fbaee8f1f/a64f7b49-548d-4c6e-b2b6-7aa95573c25a/066_HiResJpeg.jpg)
[Detail] SHARED RED THREAD GALAXY: copper spring, red ribbon
READ THROUGH 4: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, panel on matboard 30” x 30,” (76.2 x 76.2 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 1: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 3 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 9: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 2 panelson matboard, Flashé paint on wire fencing 30” x 30,” (76.2 x 76.2 cm), 2015
![[Detail] READ THROUGH 9](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5255ad64e4b0989fbaee8f1f/91929103-f966-4739-85a3-fab37e1c7541/030_HiResJpeg.jpg)
[Detail] READ THROUGH 9
READ THROUGH 10: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 1 panel on mat board, wire fencing 24” x 8”
READ THROUGH 1: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 3 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm)
READ THROUGH 7: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 2 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 6: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 3 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 5: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 2 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 3: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 3 panels on matboard 30” x 10” (76.2 x 25.4 cm), 2015
READ THROUGH 8: Screen-printed silk organza over vellum drawing, methylcellulose mixture, 1 panel on mat board 24” x 8,”
ARTIST STATEMENT
Red Thread, Read Through
Red Thread, Read Through began with the poetics of a curved line in mark making and turned to an expression of marriage, whether it is marriage with another or the one inside each of us, a tangle of masculine and feminine. Red vascular threads lace our bodies and oxygenate our cells as we move through existence to read our fate and write our destiny in our big and small worlds or galaxies. The works read the red thread of passion or fate, and parse lifelines.
“Matrimonial Bed” celebrates a union of two whether awake or asleep. Love, fate, and history bunch and tangle in a shaped tulle batting. Pearls, earth’s oldest gems, punctuate a butter-cloth and silk surface. The bed is entirely hand sewn, rests on a spidery red lace and the four corners of male and female ancestry.
“Galaxies,” wire spheres, represent worlds we inhabit as well as the ones we shape to support relationship. Balls of selvedge edge, unwritten potential, are caught in some. “Shared Red Thread Galaxy” is the world we create with our own fate and passion.
“Community of Marriage Boxes: Fourteen Pairs” is security from the institution of marital union as well as the balance of masculine and feminine in the psyche. Springs, a source-series of (wedding) rings, spiraling sexual experience on earth, rests in the bottom box while emblems of relational/spiritual air and fire hover in the box above.
“Read Through Writing on the Wall: Ten Relationships,” collages of screen-printed organza over sumi ink and wax crayon on vellum celebrate abstracted readings of relational existence.
Red Thread, Read Through references alchemy, which attempted to rescue the human soul and bring about salvation of the cosmos. Reading and writing are implicated.
Red consciousness draws
white ground refines
ephemeral arrangement.