Media: Linen fabric and cotton thread, hand embroidered and hand quilted

Year Completed: 2021

Dimensions: 17” x 17”

This embroidered wholecloth quilt is an aerial map of my favorite walk at Lake Park in Milwaukee, WI. I was an ARTservancy Artist in Residence there for a year, and this map highlights one of my favorite walks in the park. There is a small hill with a plaque from 1910 that attributes the hill as an earthwork and explains that at the turn of the century, there were other earthworks of animals and geometric forms on that land that had been recently destroyed. Sometimes on my walks I imagine what the land once looked like, and this embroidery is one such imagining. I juxtaposed images that I researched from the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee people, with images that I imagined while walking. I've also sewn current landmarks including my home, a golf course, soccer field, waterfall, my sweetheart's home, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan.

Exhibitions:

Land Reflections: ARTservancy Artists in Residence, Schlueter Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2023)

Heidi Parkes, Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI (2021)

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