Home is where you're from. Home is also where you find rest after your workday is over. This site has a lot but not all artwork Rita Finnegan produced after she moved to Brooklyn from Bloomington, Illinois. There are no examples herein presented of her three-dimensional work, her sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, etc. But I believe there is enough to understand how she made "home."

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The artwork on this page evidences how neuropathy brought about by years of chemo affected her ability to make things. Ironically after she resigned her care to hospice services, some of that ability came back as she transitioned. Quietly, she worked on a book of haikus and observations recorded in patterns and calligraphic characters. This small accordian-paged book was discovered after her death and shared with family.

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Much of Rita's work will be found liberated from storage and hung in a small 1910 house in Pontiac, Illinois located close to the site of the hospital in which she was born.