My works are created from memory. I explore how societal pressure, anxiety, displacement, and upheaval mark our psyche and physical presence.
My art is about asking questions. As witnesses to societal inequities, do we turn away, internalize the pain, are moved to act, or immobilized? If we remain silent, what is the cost to ourselves and to our community? As women, how do societal pressures, norms, and rules effect our well being? What is the emotional consequence of despoiling our planet earth? In this digital age, how do we truly connect?
What makes a person and where does that essence
go after death?
There are no clear answers. Many things happen simultaneously, contradicting each other in life and in art. Trying to make sense of my place and experience in this world is what compels me to make art.
I start with a phrase or gesture. These are the outlines, fleshed out with my interior sensations and feelings as I build the work. I use various mediums on canvas or paper. There are figures and fragments overlapping, obliterating or dissolving each other. Many works layer images in multiple techniques—printmaking, drawing, digital imagery, and painting. Light, color, gesture, and line are my visual language.