I want my work to embody shared grace and promise. In the past, I shared biographic catharsis and abstract cacophony.
Today, my abstractions are devoted to elements of meaning: water, fire, earth, metal, air, wood. Feng Shui, Vastnu, Jazz, and Baroque fugues.
I revere “women’s work,” with scraps of forgotten masterpieces: Victorian hand-reticulated lace honoring workers who passed through this world without formal notice, whose only artist statements were the bits of beauty they left behind.
I work originally from traditional drawings in pencil or marker. These often become small watercolors. Some become larger watercolors. Then some become encrusted into collage, seeking papers and fabrics and small objects (beads, buttons, ephemera). If the encrustation grows, the pieces may become assemblages incorporating boxes, mobile structures, pedestals, dolls. In the tradition of Joseph Cornell, pulling from the past as well as the immediate present.
Some assemblages become three-dimensional and escape from the fine art space into interiors and landscapes: feng shui-inspired artistic collections of vintage objects, rich color, timeless perennials.
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