IMAGES | STATEMENT | RESUME

My work has taken on themes that I had encountered through my work experience as a Registered Nurse in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I had often cared for children after they had been abused, much of my work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in my installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

My work participates in a discussion that analyzes and disentangles specific images of our culture about our children. I have made the decision that my work would not offer that escape into an aesthetic discussion, intellectual diversion, imaginative fantasy, or simple entertainment. I am interested in creating works that educates, agitates and troubles the audience. It is important to captivate the audience to have them bond with the work to create that lasting memory.

Candy is made of cast bronze children shoes that are powdered coated to have an affect of candy looking bright, fun and playful, but upon picking one up you feel the weight of the bronze and one realizes that they are not for play. They are organized in a circle since children play games that are organized in that manner, such as duck, duck goose.

Bus Stop Children, this piece is about how we in our society do not have a large concern for our children and money is not provided for them. I see each of these pieces as a child and the best people to take care of them is those around us that have homes and families. It also provide a small sculpture to be incorporated into many people lives.

My goal in this project is to reach out to the community to provide them with an interesting sculpture and to involve them in an art project. It is collaboration between the local people and myself. It is about the trying to involve people that normally do not participate in art. I am trying to have the ordinary people get involved in a project that is being brought to them, instead of having them enter a gallery or museum. It is also about trust that in today society needs to be reinstated.