screen printed on cotton, appliquéd, stitched together  

The city is a manufactured landscape, an urban environment.  During a walk through my neighborhood, I encountered several redwood trees, hundreds of miles away from their natural habitat.  Drawn to the rugged surface of the trees, which was a counter point to all of the concrete and asphalt surroundings, Naughty Knotty, is a tree manufactured out of a single photographic image taken of a section of bark. The multi-shingled image of the bark echoes the experience one would have walking amongst a grove of redwood trees.  Because of the scale you cannot see the forest through the trees.  What you can experience is the tactile quality and the physical presence of the bark of the tree. 

In Naughty Knotty, the use of cloth  transforms our notions of bark as hard and tough.  The soft, pliable and lightweight qualities of the cloth express an idea of bark and tree as a gracefully draped feminine sheath.  The formidable scale and girth of Naughty Knotty and the bold image of bark paired with the suppleness of cloth contradicts our perceptions of what a tree is supposed to be.