I am a painter and installation artist.  I paint on silk, cotton, linen, and rags, its 

materiality all up in front.  The dyed image and its ground fabric are one, shimmering 

and translucent, representation broken down by alternate processes and materials.  

Photographic images found or personal, brushed in localized tones, depend on a wet 

on wet watercolor effect with the use of an overhead projector shifting scale and 

warping form, its cohesiveness tested by a combination of traditional techniques 

used for expressive purposes: stain, dye, resist, fabric paint, transfer printing, block 

printing and stamping, tie-dye, resist and marbling alongside marker and pen.  

The painting is then removed from the frame, steam set for fastness, rinsed, 

hemmed, and hung from embroidered loops or sewn in hooks attached along top 

and bottom corners, suspended from a wall or ceiling, to function as wall hanging, 

sculpture, canopy, tent or enclosure.  Lacking inflexible wooden stretcher bars and 

their hidden constraints, the image sags, folds, and is most of all mobile; paintings 

blow in the breeze, reverberate within circulation systems, lift from the wall, and float 

close to the body; a static representation speaking of the transitory. 

Through installation the works displace and react to the surrounding space. The 

paintings face every direction, touch, cradle and cover each other, are temporarily 

attached with pins, or billow and drape.  Original intention is made flexible as images 

are juxtaposed and meaning is engulfed, pieces easily alternated and re- 

contextualized. Becoming tarps, pulled taught with fishing line which emanates like 

spider webs, connecting to ceiling or wall, highlighting otherwise ignored 

architectural features (hooks, pipes, etc) or odd nooks.  Space broken apart and air 

surrounded, cocooning the body and sight with a forced closeness of angled 

representations, text, and color within a cut up cube. 

This nomadic approach to interiority parallels a subjective articulation of cultural 

memory through re-interpretation and storytelling, easily slipping into the realm of 

dream and unconscious.  Disembodied, reaching for something other than itself.  A 

theatrical stage continually exposing:  holding up and nullifying veil after veil in its 

desire to float free.