I use painting, drawing, sewn textiles, to produce conglomerate installations of intimate diaristic works that subtly pair the fragile, interior and domestic with the dangers of the external world.

“Obstacles of Every Sort” are a kind of self-made knickknack.  They appear to be fragile and may easily fall over.  

“Part Memoir” consists of many small pillows.  I don’t really think of them as pillows, but more as an object, or a piece of sculpture that you can hold.  Fabric is just a different substrate for my drawings or paintings.  I use sewing as another form of mark making.  

“Prefix” ponders the idea of a keepsake, something that we hold onto even though it’s broken.  An investigation of the ordinary and its silent history.

By placing this deceptively simple object in the spotlight, you call attention to it, you cause it to be seen.  Allowing the object to be pondered or highlighted, elevates its status.  

I like to be challenged by trying new materials to use as substrates for my paintings or drawings. Each new material provides a new challenge; the shape, the color, and how the drawing or painting will fit in this circumscribed area.  I have a vocabulary of things that I draw and this vocabulary is always changing and growing.

I almost always work in multiple iterations and in the beginning, I do not always understand what my destination will be.  It benefits me and the work to set aside critical thought and let things develop organically.

During the past two years my sense of time has been altered – from slow to fast then fast to slow.  I have been working at a furious pace even though I, myself, have felt slow, tired at times.  The ideas are in a queue and I cannot ignore them.  They bubble up and I must try to finish them.  Or at least start them.  A kind of frantic art making – note taking about my time here.

My art practice is informed by the events going on in the larger world and those events can touch me deeply. My art expresses sympathy for oppressed people, especially women who have been exploited or caught up in conflicts.  Many works are responses to events that are disturbing. Through my art I am making objects that help others, and myself, to heal and understand.