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Cellula
In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked through a primitive microscope at a thinly cut piece of cork. He saw a series of walled boxes that...
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Dervish
By Betty Busby My New World series is all about the unseen. All around us, within us, atoms are whizzing around. It starts with drawing...
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Our Living, Breathing Oceans
As a child of the Navy, growing up near the ocean was built into my childhood. Essential to our planet's survival, the oceans are the...
Betty Busby
The Wonder of Inside
It begins with drawing, for me- I'm constantly looking at interior organic structures, the repetition of the varied shapes is a source of...
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September Sky
I began this project, as I do with so many, by painting on fabric- cotton in this instance. I use a wet on wet process, and let the...
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Into the Woods
A recent stay at our family home in Pennsylvania sent me down a rabbit hole of memories. The willow tree in our back yard was like...
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Teasel
Teasel, 36x18", 2018 silk dupioni, hand and machine stitching. detail this piece was actually inspired by the back of brocades. I love...
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Thistle me this
One early afternoon after visiting Luana and Sophie Rubin at EQuilter in Boulder, I spied a little grove of teasels along a drainage...
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Circling the Drain
I chose the spiral image as the central theme for my response to the addiction challenge. When we are obsessed with something, we return...
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The Best Laid Plans...
The beloved Scottish Poet Robbie Burns' 1786 poem, To A Mouse, was written as an apology after he tore through a mouse nest while...