The clothing pattern series confronts the ideas stemming from living in the body. Physical image, age, wholeness, and individuality are weighed against the backdrop of the body's transitory nature.

Many in between times occur during our existence. This Work reveals certain repetitious thought process patterns that develop, affecting human growth, in the between of birth and death. We are made of a material that is only part us, that stretches and conforms, is fragile and temporary; and, is often times confused with that which it stores.

Young or old, large or thin, the body affects how a person perceives him or herself and how that person perceives others. Segmenting the body, on to the pattern tissue paper, removes the feeling of wholeness, detaching the essence of self from the body parts. The self does not rest in a hand, or in a shoulder, or in a leg; and, if like tissue paper, the skin becomes wrinkled and bones fragile- the individual can remain intact, the self can still be strong. With this realization, the individual can begin to rightly perceive others. Perceiving not through patterns such as age, gender, race, or physical attributes; but, as an individual creation, in a connected composition of creations.

1998