Paintings

I paint on tablecloths, bedspreads and garments. The process by which I arrive at my paintings is like an archeological dig. Before I start painting, I look for patterns woven, embroidered, or sown long ago, and I let those patterns guide my work. I place a human figure or portrait into a large manmade or natural landscape. In my work, a tablecloth or bedspread plays as much of a role as a forest or a desert. In this balance of the concrete and ethereal, the viewer is encouraged to make space for inner meditation. 

When contemplating the concepts that come up in my art—female dependence and independence, beauty, violence, and vulnerability—I consider these questions: what does it mean to be abandoned by your country? How does strife shape the generations that follow it? How do we preserve the emotions of the past?