STATEMENT
I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where my father worked at the Museum of Art, where I learned to look at art on the walls and realized that I too could make interesting things.
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My recent work is concerned with place. Like aerial-view maps, the pieces suggest landscapes from above. I am interested in the way land changes from the organic, meandering lines of rivers, mountains, clouds and shorelines to straight, man-made lines —roads, fields, jet-rails, latitude and longitude. Much of my work focuses on the juxtaposition of these straight and curvy lines.
I work with many materials; vines, wire, milled and raw wood, paper, canvas, yarns, paint and found objects. Some of the pieces are about pure color, seen through textures of pigment or yarns. Large wall-pieces suggest narratives that one can move through. Small needlepoint pieces suggest vessels or maps, with details of places.
My early memories are about travel, as a child with my parents, in this country and abroad, while I followed maps that showed roads that went from here to there, always returning to our house in the landscape.