Experience is never limited and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility,
a kind of huge spiderweb of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of
consciousness and catching every airborne particle in it's tissue.

-Henry James

All living things leave a physical mark, a stain or imprint through the natural cycle of creation and birth, life, growth, death, and the regeneration of life through decomposition. The cyclic nature of our bodies and earth serve to jog the mind, to remind us of the desire to seek progress within cycle, and measure that progress against the repetitive constant.

My pieces begin with layers of fabric that have been subjected to processes such as burning, rusting, decomposition, burying, or simple exposure to the elements. These processes yield patterns that evoke the body, aerial, architectural, agricultural, industrial and urban landscapes. Subsequent layers of branded marks, images, paint, wax, hair, and found materials are collaged in repetitive compositions which reference ornamental and decorative patterning. The use of ornament and repetition provides rhythm and clarity as well as generates allusions to historical, psychological and cultural meanings. My recent work utilizes collaged images of products from Sunday circulars and mail-order catalogs combined with my own images taken at trade shows, interior design centers, botanical shows and gardens. This work combines ideas of natural creation with those of man-made creation and what lies in between such as cloning, cross-pollinization, designer babies and plastic surgery.

I am interested in raising questions concerning want vs. need, the overabundance of choice in a commercial society as well as the waste that excess produces and ultimately, what the accumulation and discarding of this waste can both create and destroy.