TI 57, Addition and Subtraction travel

TI 57, Addition and Subtraction travelBook pages, acrylic, ink, embroidery floss, thread, and charcoal Diptych of Two 24" x 24" each painting on cradled birch panel (24" x 48" if hung as a single artwork) My parents' generation used slide rulers to perform complex calculations. Calculators became available when I entered college, and everyone used a Hewitt Packard 12C. (Does anyone else remember using reverse Polish notation?) My kids grew up with Texas Instrument calculators. So when I

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I spent my summer in the Vail Valley

I loved riding my bike through the suburban track housing where I lived

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Ornamental Grass Eight is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper

In Smoke Tendrils

poured acrylic painting behind glass

A group of butterflies is often called a flutter

My signature and the creation year are on each print's back

These "arch" paintings (four individual collage artworks) are displayed together as a single painting

Summer Days is a cheerful collage painting that reminds me of hot summer days

I have used plants from my garden to block the UV-rays and create unique