Dana Falconberry

I am calling these pieces “paintstitches” as they incorporate both acrylic paint and chainstitch embroidery. In these pieces I am interested in centering the experience of the present flora, usually right before or right after sunrise/sunset, or perhaps a coming storm. I like to imagine that the main event has either already happened or is about to happen. In both cases, we, the human viewer, are not seeing it. Instead we are watching the flora as they engage with the land, water and sky around them. Was it a good sunset, birch? Are you ready for sunrise, fern? What will the night bring, yarrow?