This series uses medals I had made in preparation for my Ancestor Medals class. Between the medals created to prepare for the class and others made as a demo during the filming, I had gathered quite a few pieces that were sitting in a drawer waiting for their next chapter.

Each medal has been mounted on a wooden cradle which was collaged with additional paper and fabric ephemera.

Each medal is a little world, a small assemblage of gathered beauty and history. It carries not only the weight of history but the lightness of art, a reflection of our shared human stories bringing the past into the present. Tangible treasures combining found objects, rusty tins, encaustic medium, paper and fabric.

Mixed Media Collage on Wood Panels

2024