Artist's Statement
I have been making art since I was a small child, trying ever since that time to learn and unlearn what I can about the creative process.
At the age of six I rescued a near perfect, hand painted, porcelain tea cup from a neighbor’s trash can and have been drawn to cast-off materials as inspiration for art making ever since. I like to explore a variety of mediums, often combining seemingly disparate materials in unusual ways, and transforming found objects into two and three dimensional works. I see the beauty and the possibilities in all materials and I feel compelled to explore. The challenge for me is to find the right medium for each body of work that presents itself.
I am most interested in history, historical imagery and historical textile traditions and techniques. Most of my textile based work is hand stitched. For me the stitched line is the drawn line, and I think of these works as Textile Drawings.
My most recent work is photo based. Rather than using photographic imagery transferred to textiles as I have in the past, the new works are photographic prints, some digital and some silver gelatin. I am using appropriated imagery and original photos in combination, and melding new and old photographic technologies to create personal fantasies, tall tales, and exaggerations.