Artist Statment:

My art is about the tension of the opposites, the collision of the metaphysical and physical world, the collision of joy and pain. “The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" I am a breast cancer survivor. Having this disease changed my direction. My work becomes about pain and the survival of. I have a need to create and then distress what I create. Things that are broken become important. People who are dying are fascinating. Doors become symbols of transition, of my father’s death, and my mother’s impending death.  I am fascinated people out of place, a world in bondage struggling to be free.

While in the process of dying, my father kept repeating, “I don’t know which door; tell me which door do I go through?”  “You’ll know” I said.  Somewhere in all of this pain and natural ending of our lives I find comfort. I play with repetitive images of the same face. Familarity. Faces I choose to memorize. I muse upon the mystical transition from here to there,  and the illusion of living as a whole being in a world streaming madly beyond our imaginations. 

I throw paint on wood and paper and distress it and out of something damaged create a thing of beauty, a woman holding a dead leaf, deer’s teeth, and transitions from life to death into life again. Isn’t this what we are about?  Everyday we are re-birthed as we open our eyes once again to the light. The day rubs us raw, we treat out wounds and rest to begin over again hiding behind veils and doors.