ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My role as an artist is to entice the viewer to look, linger, and respond.  Although I use various methods of fiber manipulations that have historic origins relating to many ancient cultures, I never wanted to produce traditional tapestry.  I have a love of exploration and an interest in change and growth – things that look one way and turn into something else.  From my eclectic accumulation of materials and objects, I imbue some with humor, nostalgia, joy, or unexpected weight, thus revealing the merging of old/new, quiet/unquiet, and soft/hard.  In juxtaposing these incongruous assemblages, I am looking beyond the outer form for the suggestion of an inner meaning.  To capture the magic in this “ordinary” is my goal.