My sculptures portray women captured in a moment of emotion or struggle between different aspects of their lives. These moments center around the seeking of balance--between family and self, tradition or faith and personal needs, beauty and perception, or between vulnerability and finding strength. The quest to find harmony between these opposing forces is universal--it has carried through the generations of all women in all places and cultures. The women I create are engaged in their own personal contemplations, with each telling a portion of a story relevant to all women.

In all of my sculptures I reinforce these themes by the found objects I use within them. The sculptures incorporate different objects, all of which are used and discarded items from the domestic sphere of life. Many are household items than women have used, sometimes for hundreds of years, in the work of their everyday lives. The objects I use are taken out of their normal context and scale and are repurposed as a visual aid in telling the story of the sculpture. Their texture, their weight, their signs of wear and use create a world in which the sculpture lives. In addition, these objects represent the burdens, choices, and responsibilities that timelessly fall at a woman’s feet. Not all of these things are unwelcome, but always they are inevitable.