I’m interested in objects that self-contradict, or that invert received
meanings. I work in series, beginning usually with found objects or collections of objects. These images are representative of recent and ongoing bodies of work. On the first page, wooden household tools--measuring scoop, sock darning form, mortar & pestle, etc--have been encased in a translucent,
"flesh-colored" doll maker's clay. I was looking for manifestations of the human form in everyday objects
that are designed to be grasped or touched. The clay features have been "aged" through scarring or
partial erasure. The objects are presented as artifacts, relics of a
scarcely remembered feminine past. On the second page of the album, objects ranging in scale from paintbrush to push broom are coiffured, suggesting connections between domesticity and labor, feminine personality and portraiture.
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