STATEMENT 

From incarnation, to life beyond completion, each artwork evolves through undetermined cycles.  I work with a base of paper and incorporate fabrics, stamps, beads, maps, gold, ink, drawing, wood and anything else that seduces me. I canonize seemingly insignificant scraps of memory, precious only to me.  Materials constantly redefine themselves.  Every cut, stain, paste, paper, burn, stitch, reacts differently to every other.  I trust my process like I trust the horizon and tides. Faith makes magic.

I work within a variety of themes and series including memory, journals, mapping, nature, feminism, political issues, “white”, woven and more……Process and materials give birth to meanings.

I fight loss through loving reconstruction of ephemera.  I destroy and repair to try to possess. Through the process of making however, my precious content becomes even more irrelevant. No matter, this desperate salvaging labor proves my existence to myself.   I hold onto a world that is gone. I try to preserve time. Then I let it go. My work demonstrates futile activity in life and exposes the frailty of being human.

In the end, tangible self-satisfaction arrives in moments of elation at my artistic reincarnations and constant unfulfilled desires.  My hope is to share  the exhilaration, wonder, and a little bit of  the pain, that I feel.