Her Head a Cracked Bell, 2026, collage/mixed media (paper, including 2001 postcards and Salamanca maps on wood with wire, glass and silver scallop shell amulet).
Let the Roast Burn, 2026, collage/mixed media (paper, wallpaper, newspaper, earrings, pins, buttons, and hair accessories on corkboard). Source Materials: The Worcester Telegram Homemaker’s Handbook (1950, 1959; “Let the Roast Burn” ad for Ballentine’s Scotch Whiskey from Newsweek, September 23, 1968; wallpaper and junkmail uncovered during kitchen renovation of c.1921 home in Worcester, MA.
Road of Stars, 2026, collage/mixed media (paper and 1996 maps/guides from the Camino de Santiago, jet and silver amulet, shell, and stamps reproduced from my 1996 journal and pilgrim’s Credencial from refugios for pilgrims along the route)
A Kind of Brainstorm, 2025 New England Poetry Club Prizewinners Anthology; Hemicrania (Chestnut Review Chapbooks, 2024)
Sources: Images from the History of Medicine collection, digital archives of the National Library of Medicine: “Ascertaining capacity of cranial cavity by means of water,” memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1885); bone plate from De humani corporis fabrica, Andreas Vesalius (1543); and phrenology cartoon (1838). Found poem text from “What is Migraine” article in The Waterloo (Indiana) Press, November 6, 1913. Woman pictured bottom-right is my great-grandmother, Eva, a migraineur. (1896-1961).
Dream House, Atticus Review (mixed media: paper and wallpaper on painted wood and plaster), Issue 4, Spring 2023 (Artist Statement)
Therese Gleason 