Fear, safety, control and lack of true communication play crucial roles in the separateness that exists. This encompasses individual, communal and societal relationships. I juxtapose ideas of humor, simplicity, and light with weight and somberness. I use materials and imagery that signifies playfulness, freedom, comfort and the lightness of youth, but are recontextualized and manipulated to simultaneously convey a sense of constraint, protection, and control.

I am interested in the psychological and physical conditions of individual and societal existence. One of the predominate themes I have seen in myself and in the world has been a search for the sense of one's self and for a sense of one's place in their relationships, community, society, and universe. I use the body-its absence and presence as a generative source for exploring implications and connotations of groundedness, freedom, confinement, concealment, meaning, self, fear of the unknown, letting go and holding on.