2003
Painting, stamped sculpey, yarn, CD, alphabet beads,
rusted wire, part of rosary, frame.
A shrine made while going through breast cancer
treatment that gave me an anchor to my creativity and
supported my spirituality during a difficult journey.
The Sword of Compassion
Strips Away the Anger
2001
Plaster gauze mask, tea strainer, Kwan Yin statue,
metal charms, paint, glitter, found wooden
background.
A mask that exposes the silence imposed on me as a
child, and the setting free of the anger which
cleansed and helped me to find wholeness.
The Culture of Man:
What a Piece of Work
2000
Divided Drawer with children’s toys, doll heads, rocks, advertising
postcards, wire.
This shrine is an attempt to show the fragmentation of men and their
bodies by patriarchy’s emphasis on aggression and machismo in
mostly industrialized North American and European cultures. The
images here permeate the media, which then permeates most
children’s lives. The media promotes all the stereotypes of “male”
qualities which are seen as necessary to maintain control:
aggressiveness, possessiveness, sexual virility and power, physical
strength, emotional control. This stereotyping causes harm to male
as well as female children by limiting their potential to become full
human beings with a wide range of qualities. The scary part for me
was how readily available these images were to obtain.
