Joanne, Loss of Memory

A collection of memories of the artist’s mother. She was the first women scientist at the University of Delaware’s Graduate College of Marine Science. Housed in a doll trunk lined with handmade paper from Spartina marsh grass are maps, photographs palm leaf books, shells and her research paper describing plankton populations in the Delaware Bay in the 1950’s.

2002        Unique        13” x 6.5” x 7”