Resting Place
       
     
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What Remains
       
     
What Remains (back view)
       
     
What Remains (detail)
       
     
Expected Recovery Period
       
     
Expected Recovery Period (Detail)
       
     
Flare Up
       
     
Flare up (detail)
       
     
Being (a) Patient
       
     
Contact (Loss)
       
     
Amnesia (Childhood)
       
     
Amnesia (Anterograde)
       
     
Grief Garment
       
     
Resting Place (Ghost)
       
     
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Rest/Less
       
     
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Crying cloth
       
     
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Pall
       
     
Forgetting Calendar
       
     
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Mourning Ribbon
       
     
Reliquary
       
     
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Grief Creature
       
     
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Memory Book
       
     
Notes To Self
       
     
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Funeral Announcement, 2020
       
     
Vanishing
       
     
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Object/Ghost
       
     
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Resting Place
       
     
Resting Place

2023

Vintage quilt, silk organza, ash, altered headboard

Variable, at least 7'x4'x5'

Resting Place (detail )
       
     
Resting Place (detail )
What Remains
       
     
What Remains

2023

Silk organza, hand-dyed and discharge printed cotton, burned pine lumber, machine quilted.

What Remains (back view)
       
     
What Remains (back view)
What Remains (detail)
       
     
What Remains (detail)
Expected Recovery Period
       
     
Expected Recovery Period

2022

Altered tables, black walnut, ceramic bird, iron paint, silk organza, hand-dyed and discharge printed cotton

Expected Recovery Period (Detail)
       
     
Expected Recovery Period (Detail)
Flare Up
       
     
Flare Up

2022

Hand dyed and commercially dyed cotton, calico, discharge altered silk organza. Machine quilted.

Flare up (detail)
       
     
Flare up (detail)
Being (a) Patient
       
     
Being (a) Patient

2022

Dyed and discharge printed cotton, piecework silk organza

Contact (Loss)
       
     
Contact (Loss)

2022

Discharge printed calico, silk organza, a photograph of my grandmother and my sister's hands

Amnesia (Childhood)
       
     
Amnesia (Childhood)

2022

Discharge printed and machine quilted calico.

Amnesia (Anterograde)
       
     
Amnesia (Anterograde)

2022

Discharge printed silk organza and cotton

Grief Garment
       
     
Grief Garment

2021

Silk organza, silk gauze, ash, dandelion seed heads

Resting Place (Ghost)
       
     
Resting Place (Ghost)

2021

Ashes of my grandmother’s saved correspondence, silk organza, the pattern of a quilt block my grandmother made

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Chase_Emily  _SP21_4.jpg
       
     
Rest/Less
       
     
Rest/Less

Paper pieced into twin size quilt and slept under, grief

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Crying cloth
       
     
Crying cloth

2021

Silk gauze, glass beads, a quilt block my grandmother made

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Pall
       
     
Pall

2021

Ashes of my grandmother’s saved correspondence fed into the bottle with a tiny spoon, antique glass bottle dug out of the Oklahoma salt flats, silk gauze

Forgetting Calendar
       
     
Forgetting Calendar

2020

Digitally printed and machine stitched silk organza, a fragment of conversation

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Chase_Emily_FA2020_26.jpg
       
     
Mourning Ribbon
       
     
Mourning Ribbon

2020

Silk screen on silk ribbon, digitally printed linen, glass beads, silk organza.

Reliquary
       
     
Reliquary

2021

The scissors I was using when I found out my grandmother had died, silk velvet and cotton sateen quilted on my grandmother’s sewing machine, Czech glass beads, quilting pins painted and coated in mica

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Grief Creature
       
     
Grief Creature

2021

Glass head sewing pins, silk velvet, skin

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Memory Book
       
     
Memory Book

2020

Printed and stitched silk organza book with thirty-nine pages, one for each month since my traumatic brain injury caused short and long-term memory loss, repeated phrase

Notes To Self
       
     
Notes To Self

2020

Various screen printed papers, glass head pins, glass beads, an awful mantra

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Funeral Announcement, 2020
       
     
Funeral Announcement, 2020

2020

Various screen printed paper, glass head pins, glass beads

Vanishing
       
     
Vanishing

2020

43”x8”

Linen, ink, glass beads, metallic thread, pins, ink

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Object/Ghost
       
     
Object/Ghost

2020

Hand cut paper, machine cut vellum, spools of thread from my grandmother

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