“In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. I see much reality in the imagination.” Federico Fellini

Being alive is easily forgotten, protected by ironed shirts, cellular phones, daily planners and gated subdivisions. Planes flying into towers, hurricanes, bird flu, identity theft, borders, and minutemen, are just a few things that can awake us through fear and anxiety. I am concerned with making things that question the fear and anxiety that can occur when things are not in order. By setting up a scene that both engages and repels, familiar and weird, I am inviting the viewer to consider the conflicts that define us as a people and as a culture.

Combining the handmade, detritus from everyday life, with painting and drawing is crucial to my working process. I find it especially gratifying to use objects that would be disregarded otherwise and consider it a small victory to extend an object’s life before hitting the landfill.

Interests in metaphor, associative memory, parody, and current events such as hurricane Katrina, have inspired these latest works. The work delves with associations we make between objects, people, and events, and how this becomes the thread of a story, when the division made between fact and fiction is no longer the issue.