2000
Cheese boxes, rocks, wood, rusted metal, broken crockery,
cardboard shotgun shell casings, seashells, Christmas bulb, word
cube, doll arms, marbles, and a bottle.
Art made of the refuse of our humanness, our over-consumptive
society, our disregard for the beauty of the planet of which we are
a part. I want to remind people that it is all redeemable, that our
salvation lies not in consumption but in recognizing our
connection to the earth.
1999
Three-piece hammered metal mirror with photographs,
lobster trap wire, gull skull, ribbons, oil pastels, and
various medals.
This shrine honors the love I have felt in my life and
names the wounding I suffered as a small child.
1999
Doll parts, other toys, religious cards, statues, candles, stones, root,
rusted metal, drawers, Robert Lentz icons, wooden boxes.
This shrine speaks to the fragmentation of my female spirituality with
the inherent dualism in our culture emanating from the Christian
religion and subsequently from science. It expresses the cost to
women of the mechanization of nature by religion and science with
particular emphasis on the splitting off of the body from the mind
and sexuality from spirit using the imagery of Roman Catholicism and
feminine American doll icons, within the framework of drawers and
jewelry-type boxes. This piece challenges dualistic thinking and
displays the risks inherent in being an authentic religious being in a
woman’s body.
2002
Cigar box, Mexican mirror, plastic snake, carolers,
scrabble letters, various words and phrases cut from
books and magazines, collage, metal charms, ceramic
mask, beads, Envirotech plastic.
This piece is a celebration of the body and the spirit found
there through the simple pleasures in music, color, and
dance. We are embodied spirits and the body and what we
do to it are a part of our spiritual path, not something to
deny.