Detail from dropcloth poem. Yarn, used dropcloth, painter’s tape. 2010
I work on the final lines of the dropcloth poem during my weeklong residency in Field Work, SW 12th & Jefferson, Portland, November 2010
My mom and grandmother add stitches to the stiches. They taught me to embroider.
tiny arctic ice in its first iteration as a teabag poem for the Dusie Kollektiv, 2005.
tiny arctic ice in its first iteration as a teabag poem for the Dusie Kollektiv, 2005.
Remember to Wave map. I stitched the shape of the walk and typed and collaged details. 2008.
Scroll on which I composed Remember to Wave by stitching in new segments. The rods are bamboo from my yard. I used this scroll to perform Remember to Wave.
sandwich poem. I set this out frequently in the Old Town, Portland, neighborhood where I worked in a studio on my Happy Valley Project. Passersby added lines.
Handmade paper using the North American Free Trade Agreement (see the NAFTA project for more images)
Jessi paints a magicians hat on the cover of “A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff”
“A Cloak of Words,” 1998 (cotton pages run through laser printer and stitched using French seam)
detail from “A Cloak of Words,” 1998 (cotton pages run through laser printer and stitched using French seam)
“a shelter for some poems,” which I assembled as I read.
chapbook created for Dusie Kollektiv
book created out of conversations with Teresa Tamiyasu for final Remember to Wave walk
An early iteration of “Aquifer,” which appears in interval (edge books 2004)
artist reception for “Object Poems” curated by David Abel at 26 Gallery, Portland, Oregon, November 26, 2011
First poem of collaged lyric using the North American Free Trade Agreement as text