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My artistic process is an ongoing dialogue between the visions in my subconscious—what I will make— and the materials that speak to me.  I am an interdisciplinary artist and scholar.  Because different projects require different forms of expression, I have worked in various mediums over the course of my art career. 

I make sculptures and embroidery collages with textiles and found objects.  I am also a painter and video and performance maker. Color is a primary aspect in all my work.

Through my current artwork, I tell the story of my awakening consciousness of nature, its objectivity and the mysteries that lie between human society, the earth and the hidden worlds beyond.  My subconscious and my intuitive, psychic sensibilities often provide the subject matter for my work. I draw upon my personal mysticism to create work, that has depth, beauty, mystery and sometimes playfulness.

I have always seen beyond our earthly world to the other side of death.  As a child of 3, I met my first ghost.  Since my son died in 2022, those connections have expanded and I have become more conscious of bird and bird-related images that I seem to be channeling.

I create art from the place of images that are both of this world and otherworldly.  Sometimes the textile materials communicate through me and other times it is the symbolic content of the work that takes precedence over form.

Early in my career, I began painting colorful, abstracted, mythical realms of my interior dreamscape. Birds appeared as sentinels and morphed with women becoming hybrid creatures.  I have recently begun to explore the image of this mythical bird.  They observe and witness.  They act as a guardian.  Their knowing is evidenced by their presence.

As I worked to create bird-like objects and nests, I became aware that the pieces were about the materials.  The practice of putting together natural fibers along with carbon-based materials felt at first incongruous.  As I worked, I began to understand that I was subsuming the plastics and other petroleum-based materials into the natural fibers: symbolically integrating plastic into nature. By conceptualizing this dynamic, and naming it, I began to see the work as a ritualistic practice of healing, growth and renewal.  Each piece came to have many layers of meaning from the very personal to the most mundane.  It is only through making the work that I know what is being communicated.