Security Blanket
Health Care – to advocate for self, be listened to, and be entitled to get responses/care (Doctors required husband’s approval before treatment… my cancer is traced to past refusal to treat)… My intertwining health care words: Hands off/on, Heritage, History/Herstory, Human rights, Humanitarian, shared Humanity, Happy, Humble, Helpful, Healing, Historical cultural sensitivity…
Cotton fabrics, dye baths, embroidery & sewing thread, Sergeant Major bars, appliqué lace, yarn, trim, handmade felt
Jackie Thomas is a fiber artist who usually addresses issues of Diversity, Equity, Interdependence, Social Justice, and her own family history in three-dimensional works. She employs traditional and non-traditional fibers techniques to manipulate and to dye yarns, strings, cloth, and collections of recycled materials.