This series is about focusing on one small detail until it takes on a life of its own. Each painting is a meditation on a single tiny shape from a commercial fabric design. In the painting, the fabric design shape becomes as useful as the fabric itself much like the fabric's relationship to a quilt or a dress. It is an important part of the whole that can stand on its own to satisfy the viewer.

Common themes from my previous work also emerge through these paintings like sculpture, women, and symbols. The size, shape, and texture of this work make the pieces more like sculptural objects than painted surfaces as windows into a reality. The source of the shapes relates to women's creative history and as the shapes evolve in the painting they take on symbols and characteristics from my intimate life experience. For example, the cartouche is a feminine body and many of the other shapes reflect ideas about reproduction and spirit.