wool, cotton, silk, acrylic
~ 68″ x 34″

“Barbara’s Cabin” is a musing on the idea of home and the dream of home ownership. The design loosely references the classic ‘log cabin’ quilt pattern. Typically the pattern’s outside rectangles were meant to symbolize the walls of the home and the inside square, often red, symbolized the hearth. The colour palette is evocative of plastic commodities of my childhood in the ‘90’s – Barbie and her Dreamhouse Mansion, toys which I coveted but never owned. In the context of current real estate realities and the high cost of living in the lower mainland, for many home ownership feels like it will never be more than a dream. This piece plays with imagining what Barbie’s idea of home would be now. Similar maybe to my own more grown up fantasy, no longer visions of a grand mansion but simply a humble hope of a humble cabin; a dream of four walls and a hearth of my own. “