My work is wearable objects, masks, and jewelry that explores the feeling of being powerless and voiceless. My works deals with the loss of identity or lack of one, and the problems that is associated with not knowing oneself. In these works, I use toilet paper, thread, spray paint, and water-soluble stabilizer to create the texture, surface, and color. I used machine embroidery to create the web like surfaces, and hand sewing to produce the structure and form of each piece.  My purpose is to examine the feelings of not having a voice or identity. Therefore, not being able to communicate authentically with others which does not allow oneself to be emotionally vulnerable.

Folklore is passed mouth to mouth.  Folk art is passed hand to hand.  Pine needle and grass coiling into baskets has been in existence since the time of man.  My extensive study with the Gullah Geechee in the barrier islands off the Georgia Coast, and a master coiler North in the barrier islands of Virginia imbue the work with a deep tradition yet the forms move outside tradition to embrace a new definition of basketry and vessels, stretching the traditional forms and materials to embrace contemporary meanings.

Found items… pieces from the forest and desert floor, and the flowing current and eddies of the rivers influence the work as they have influenced my life…past present, and future evidenced in all.