In my work, I reflect on my past with an eye toward transforming tragedy into beauty.  Both materials and process become metaphors for my life story and my very personal transformation.  The work is a collision of repetitive processes and suggestive materials that are evocative of my childhood, my gender and my faith.  In this collision of opposites, I remove the function of these metaphoric objects and materials while I transform my understanding of past traumatic events.

        The work itself has a physically lush presence, brought about by colliding fabric, thread or paper with steel, glass or architecture.  My repetitive process of cutting, drilling, dipping and/or overlapping, emphasizes the contrasts between hard, sharp materials and visually rich, supple materials.  This lushness is reinforced in the use of richly colored fabric, the preciousness of silver, images or allusions to the landscape and intimacy with the body.  Through the placement and scale of these of objects, performance installations and videos, I attempt to make the viewer more aware of their own body and the anxiety of my process.