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All of my work is uh primarily two dimensional,
even things that get made into public art

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or something starts as a drawing or a painting
and then gets translated, and this series

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of a paintings was based on a piece of music,
Faure’s Requiem that I was listening to a

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lot in my study and each movement had a different
feeling to it for me and it’s a actual requiem

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for the burial of the dead and my husband
had just died that past year so really I put

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a lot of heart into it.

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Pattern and repetition is kind of a movement
in art, it was in the 70s, but for me, I was

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influenced by my grandmother, she was my mentor
and she had a patterned carpet and she would

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let me use colored buttons, ah she had jars
of different buttons and I would make mosaics

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echoing the patterns of the carpet and I know
that had a huge imprint on me.

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I like organic geometric as opposed to drawn
with a ruler and really hard edged, because

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I think the patterns of our lives are similar
but every day they’re different.

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It really kind of follows the circle of life
and the circle is one of my favorite ways

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to repeat into a pattern.

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I don’t know if I characterize patterns as
peaceful but I think we relate to them.

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The ripples on a stream, the light patterns
coming down through the trees you know we

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see that all around us so it’s some way to
relate.

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I think the underlying feeling of the rhythm
of patterns is universal.

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I like the idea of loaning because I think
that way when someone is in these countries

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and in these embassies over and over no matter
who is in office, no matter who is the ambassador

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they can see the different American art each
time they go in and all of that connects us

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to each other so I think it’s uh it really
is valuable, I’m really glad they have the

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program.