Bumps in the Road #1 is a small three-dimensional collage that represents the challenges of living through a pandemic. The challenge of not touching our faces, keeping our homes clean, finding ways to food shop, making sure to exercise daily, trying to find humor or watch humor to keep our spirits up, and more.

It’s made with collaged monoprinted fabric scraps that are stitched on the removable cups from my bras. I hate those things so I remove them. Between healing from donating my kidney in December 2019, and then working from home because of the pandemic, for many months I gave up underwire bras (which hurt) for soft structured bras (which are much more comfortable).

The base started with an oval removable cup that measures 6” x 5.25” x .5”. The size expands from there.