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Coffee Culture

finding comfort

Overlapping paper circles with blue and white imagery

Coffee Culture is an ongoing body of work that experiments with the cast-off materials of coffee and tea making—used tea bags, coffee filters, and discarded coffee packaging—to explore themes of home, ritual, comfort, and the alchemy of reuse. 

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Inspired by the traditional domestic arts of patchwork and quilting, many works in the series take the form of quilt-like patchwork panels. While these panels evoke the warmth and comfort of home, closer inspection reveals the reality of the materials' origins, creating a striking contrast between their past and present forms. 

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Ritual Comforts
2023, 36" x 36"

A pieced quilt panel made from strips of used coffee packaging
The back of a quilt panel, made of pieced coffee filters with cyanoypea

The patterned front of this double-sided panel is made up of strips of coffee packaging, sewn together in a quilt-like design. The back is composed of used coffee filters covered in cyanotype imagery of loose coffee beans.​

Revival
2024, 46" x 54"

A pieced quilt made from used coffee filters with blue and white imagery rectangles and a few small strips of colour
A pieced quilt made from used coffee filters, some with cyanotype imagery.

This double-sided quilt is made with used coffee filters. The coloured imagery was creating using the cyanotype process and Solarfast dye.

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Java Jiving
2024, 48" x 32"

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Strips of discarded coffee packaging are sewn together to create this pieced hanging.

Meadowland

2023, 48" x 48"

A grid of coloured circles with images of wildflowers and one square with an image of a bee.
A closeup of a grid of circles with wildflower images and one square with a bee image..

Shadowy images of dried wildflowers, collected from my favourite place, are imprinted onto tea bags by the sun’s UV rays, activating the cyanotype and Solarfast dyes.

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Meadowland was awarded a Judge's Choice Award at the
2024 Grand National Fibre Art Exhibition "Delights".

Kōhī Coat

2023, 58" x 29"

Front of a Japanese style jacket made from pieced coffee filters with blue and white imagery, and a few pieces of purple
Back of a Japanese style jacket made from pieced coffee filters with blue and white imagery, and a few pieces of purple.

This Japanese-inspired jacket is made with "fabric" constructed from used coffee filters. The images are created using the cyanotype process, with Solarfast dye used for colourful accents.

Fragments

2024, 29" x 38"

Discarded coffee packaging is improv cut and pieced to create this hanging panel.

Smaller works

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