http://web.me.com/susiemonday/Site/Galleries/Pages/Altars.html The first of these altars -- quilted, pieced fabric stretched usually on a house-shaped internal frame -- was a breakthrough piece for me, a form that spoke and still speaks with power. Central images are hand-painted with dye, screen-printed, photo transfered on fabric, pieced as a fabric collage or with a combined mixed media technique. Each image is made sacred by the richness, natural and manmade, of the Texas Borderlands, a region where cultures connect, where the desert meets savannah, where birds, people and languages migrate. These works capture my belief in the sacredness of the everyday. For more about each work, click on the image. 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