The idea of vulnerability as strength underlies my investigation of forms and materials.
The industrialization of organic material inverts qualities of stability and fragility. Seemingly delicate sculptures, made from strong, durable materials expose a gap that exists between the permanent and impermanent, the feminine and masculine, and the natural and artificial.

Interplay between contradictory and exaggerated forms allow me to question social traditions and belief systems. Subverted meanings, humor and absurdity all play a role in my portrayals of gender issues, human relationships and our connection to the land.

A series of works titled "Opened Ground" (in reference to Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems 1966-1996) aims to assimilate some of the varied qualities and formations that make up the earth, both surface and subterranean. Unenlightened ideas that nature can be synthesized, 'fertilized' and controlled are countered by mythologies about the earth holding histories, burial practices and regard for nature. Land use is ironically indicted by forms that allude physically and metaphorically to human characteristics.

My site-specific installations, narrative-poetic objects, or drawings look for ways to describe the space between memory and history, stability and impermanence. Clues extracted from architectural memory and collected cultural history guided my creation of a recent site-specific installation for The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. A lost and forgotten community was reconstructed through my artistic intervention. I look for the poetic capacity of materials and their characteristics.

Cast plaster and cement become analogous to the foundations of our belief systems and ideologies. Representations of gender and landscape combined with material qualities create narratives that reflect human folly. Unrevealed or obscured histories are layered onto reinvented meanings and reconstructed memories just like the natural and artificial environments are layered in an uneasy fashion barely supporting our human need for shelter, security and significance.