Good Sunday, the second one of my ditching Facebook and moving back to my Days of Books blog.

I love collaborative efforts. And I'll take collaboration wherever I can find it: with another artist, an animal that walks across my still-wet paste paper, a printed book that I have altered. The list goes on. This past weekend one of my grand nieces, also an artist, suggested that she and I could do collaboration sewing that we would mail to each other across the country. I LOVE this kid!

A couple of art seasons ago, I was invited to be in an exhibit of collaborative art, and I could pick my own artist to do the work with me. Enter my friend, fused-glass artist  Jacqueline Bridge  Her glass, my sewing and we have "Kendi". We even wrote him a back story:

"Kendi is a young musician. His family roots reach to the Biafran area of Nigeria. He is well known to music-lovers for his hit call-and-response duet “Calm Down”, with its signature line “and that’s the risk you take”.

Now fast-forward and I am still inspired by the stories of Nigeria. Below is "She wears History on Her Head".  Four strands of her hair end in small artist's books that describe aspects of the country now called Nigeria, from pre-colonialism to the 21st century. 

She is on display at Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad https://www.frontporchgallery.org/ until January 8th, 2026. Please go check her out.