My pieces reference nature, landscape and the body but present them through human-made materials and methods that evoke theater, sexuality, the carnivalesque, the history of Feminist art, crafts, fantasy and pop culture. I use varied materials to explore the simultaneous human desire for and intense fear of intimacy, addressing the human body and the natural environment in a visceral, seductive and playful manner. The element of touch plays an important role in the work as I examine the tension between our intense hungers and desires and our need to be in control. The idea of drawing the viewer into a fantasy world inhabited by sexuality, nature, fun, danger and disappointment and also pushing him/ her away is central to my work.

Another central idea is the imaginary world created with ordinary materials and the urban landscape, where empty storefronts and abandoned buildings become tactile fantasy scenes. Discarded or abandoned bits of the urban environment become simultaneously utopian and dystopian sites populated by alien creatures. I often combine unusual materials to create familiar and humorous, yet strange worlds.

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