My art
relies on mixed media including natural and man-made fibers:
dyed, painted, torn, burned, fused with polymer or sewn together.
I use the sewing machine as my principal tool and stitch as
a personal mark. I am interested in surfaces and textures,
from almost transparent surfaces, forming webs and connections,
to built-up layers that are rich in disturbing histories and
a language of their own.
Nature is fascinating in so many ways: evolution, adaptation,
and change are intricate parts of an ever-changing world.
I am interested in transformation in nature, moments of deep
cataclysmic shifts, moments of superb energy release. I am
interested in the very special instants when a balance is
broken or shifted, an existing equilibrium is changed and
transformation occurs. More and more, humans are influencing
some shifts in nature. I am especially worried about global
climate change.
My investigation is also about understanding and integrating
two aspects of myself: art and science. I need to understand/explain
intellectually, like a scientist, the world around me and
I also need to express myself as an artist at a more emotional,
gut level.
As an artist, I have a responsibility to make viewers think
and question their environment. My larger goal is to show
in different ways that balance is fragile, that there are
links everywhere in our environment and that we are basically
interdependent. I want to be an environmental activist through
my art.
