The wall sculptures are collectively titled “The House of My Dreams.” The idealized, simple house form acts as a reliquary to enshrine objects — objects found in the woods, by the ocean, at the hardware store, and in the garden where detritus from other people's past appears as the ground freezes and thaws. The weathered, the rusted, and the broken bits speak of a continuum. As has been said about Joseph Cornell, “The notion of…turning up treasure in debris, seeing the transcendent in the forgotten, the discarded, the mundane-such a notion is intrinsically hopeful.” Like the dioramas I made as a child, these miniature landscapes alter perceptions of scale. They are installations writ small.
The monotypes use collage elements and similar imagery and materials. They allow me to use expressive mark making and weave together images and symbols that I have been exploring throughout my career. The monotypes have expanded my color palette changing my sculptures. They, like the houses, create intimate environments.
The collages, my most recent work, use the imagery I've developed with my monotypes and include found objects similar to those in my small sculptures. Much of the colored paper is pieces from the monotypes.
