Carol Ann's Portfolio
Paper Rose Series - Memories Collection - Wearable Art - Plastic Dress Series
Flowers of Secrets - Runway 3.0 - Coffee Filter Dress - Healing Garden

Current on-going project - trash to treasure - used coffee filters, beeswax, secrets, thread, embroidery stitches, needles, and pins 

Writing the secret on the circular, up cycled coffee filter did not seem like I gave enough time, respect and esteem to either the secret or the anonymous author. I decided it would be better to embroider with soft, speaking, neutral color floss the words I copied from PostSecret. While I stitch each secret I pray for peace in the heart and soul of the anonymous author. Piecing with the needle, a sort of acupuncture, tattooing ritual further adds to the healing process. As I work and pray for the healing of another woman I am feeling a cathartic healing within myself.

Loaded with so much symbolism: round like breasts; slits like vaginas; soft like the female body; interiors like wombs, vaginas, mouths, and/or the psyche; and then subtly stitched with secrets, like clues that give insight into the person who secret they caress. I envision this installation growing until I create a large, walk-in, space filled with healing Flowers of Secrets hanging suspended from above.