The intimacy provided by the sense of touch is revealed in the emphasis on texture, as bare hands are my tools of preference. I use fabric, paper, pigment, organic material, photos, texture, smell, found objects and broken bits of stuff, which resonate with a sense of history, nature, time and place. I base my choices on the emotional capacities of the objects. What our culture typically discards due to damage, age, or lack of utilitarian purpose, I find highly evocative. My creative process is a blend of the rituals associated with traditional feminine chores, alchemical explorations, symbolic revelations, geometric constructions and universal mythology, all of which function to integrate fragmentation with unity, the personal with the universal.
Life parallels art.
Audacity combined with humility has offered me a life of extremes, in pursuit of meaning, in search of truth. In life as in art, the experiences have been motivated by intuition, guided by divine will, provoked by inquiry into the realms of memory, nature, emotion, and intellect. Suspended consciousness permits the expression of subconscious ideas and feelings. The result is a highly contemporary aesthetic, Installage Paintings. My Installage Paintings merge the formal traditions of art with ethereal layers of life's fragments.