Artist Statement

I am a being who is most at home in nature, whether breathing cool, crisp air, planting a garden with my hands deep in the soil, or observing a seed pod crack and sprout triumphantly.  I am an avid gardener of fruits, flowers and vegetables.  I raise chickens and cultivate bees.  My meditation practice has attuned me to the oneness of the planet and the interconnectedness of all.  The poetry of plants, on the edge of the forest, exhaling the oxygen I breathe in, as I exhale the C02 they consume.  Everything alive is connected. We are all of the same molecules.

My work explores the connections between the body and forms in nature: the torso that looks like a seed pod or an emerging sprout, the skeletal orchid bending under its own weight, or a figure reaching for the light.  I focus on the female form as I can feel its connectedness to everything.  At one time, we were all both male and female, embedded and nurtured in the female torso.