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Meanders of the Mind

The lines of handwritten text forming the meanders provide historical information, personal experineces, and my commentary on the through lines. They are specific to the Tallapoosa, Coosa and Alabama River areas. Acrylic marker on Bristol paper (2025)

Logan’s Creek, 1954

This textile work is based on my own and three other children’s baptism in Logan’s Creek in Harpersville Alabama. The baptismal spot for Klein Baptist Church was the same one as our swimming hole that we used daily during the summer. It was impounded by the expansion of Lay Dam in 1967. The vintage table cloth on which the toned cyanotypes of photographs from 1954 are stitched was placed in the silt under the water of the inlet that erased Logan’s Creek for 24 hours to create its staining. Found table cloth, cyanotypes on cotton organza, tea dye (2025)

Transmutation: Blood Money

Religion was an important part of settler life. Planters supported churches, and some ministers were planters, James Scott of the plantation adjacent to that of the Wallaces founded Scott’s Grove Baptist Church, which became the Black mother church in the area. Samuel Henderson, father-in-law of Kate Henderson Wallace, was an important minister in Talladega. Son of a printer, he was one of the first editors of the Southwestern Baptist newspaper (now the Alabama Baptist) and also a participant in the first Confederate secession conference. Found choir robe and collection plate, cotton, acrylic medium and pennies (2022).