20.5″h x 9″ w x 4″d
rayon embroidery thread, Spanish moss, tree bark, painted envelope, Tyvek, dried bromeliads
Spanish Podcast began as a playful promise: that after one of my artist talks, no one in the audience would ever look at “trash” the same way again. One attendee took that vow to heart, returning from a California vacation with a small treasure—wisps of Spanish moss gathered just for me, proudly salvaged from the margins of a memory.
There wasn’t quite enough moss to build an entire sculpture, so rayon embroidery thread stepped in as a patient understudy, weaving itself around sun-burnished tree bark, a curled bromeliad pod, and painted scraps of envelope Tyvek coaxed into texture. Together they form a vertical landscape: part forest relic, part whispered message carried on desert wind.
But it’s the shadows that steal the show. As light slips across the piece, the forms begin to murmur—soft silhouettes that drift like voices trading stories across distance. In that flicker of movement, the gifted moss, the humble bark, the stitched echoes of thread all come alive, turning found fragments into a quiet, organic conversation.
