Ms. Harris’ new work continues her interest in the themes of language ,water, war, shelter, memory, and childhood. This will be the third one-person show of her work at the Object Image. Ms. Harris is a resident of Brooklyn but also a world traveler. Her one person show Brooklyn to Burma referenced her year long trip throughout Southeast Asia. As part of a San Francisco State University funded project Ms. Harris has for the past three years spent time doing workshops for children in rural El Salvador. Ms Harris observes that,” in these countries that have been so damaged by years of war, I became fascinated by how everyday experiences and ordinary objects related to destruction, chaos, loss, and the unimaginable. Something very common and mundane could be a symbol of safety, shelter, or peace while also being a relic of war.”

Her work is a mix of not only ideas but of materials. She uses acrylic paint on wood, a sewing machine to quilt together paper ephemera: snapshots, portraits, almanacs, gravestone rubbings, pages from children’s encyclopedias and activity books, sewing patterns, sheet music, medicine labels and candy wrappers from around the world.