Artist Statement
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My 30 - year career as an artist has led me to living in Wales, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, and Italy. This multi-cultural experience has formed the underpinning of my work that embraces the notion that the farther one goes in terms of culture and tradition, the bigger the challenge to self-definition, to who one is. Within time, the foreign becomes familiar and the exotic becomes ordinary. I am interested in this transformation as well as change that occurs as a part of our existence; accepting it, adapting to it, creating it. Recently, my work has combined the need to tell stories about this human condition and a love of fiber. The use of sewing seemed a natural metaphor; basting together our choices, creating patterns for organization, ripping things apart that do not work, sewing together things that do. The result has been large room-like spaces, installations, performance art, artistsŐs books and assemblages. All contain evidence that something has taken place, someone has been there, worked there -- the remains of the day, the remains of a life, the residue of change. It is important to me that my work is physically accessible to the viewer. I like to have people work with me in a performance, contribute personal items to be included in an assemblage, walk through the room I have created or touch and turn the pages of an artist book without the barrier of the standard white gloves. The viewer then becomes part of the story, which changes with each exchange. |
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