I am a visual artist and a political activist, although not in the usual sense of the word, working to develop a new body politic integrating knowing and feeling and the personal/political. I am interested in the connection between art (the aesthetic experience) and its transformative power. I present my work in conjunction with community building circles, a process that allows participants to explore their own feelings and deepen connections with one another. I work with mixed-media, found objects, original poetry and text. I explore both how we attach meaning to the juxtaposition of random objects, and to “the order of things”- looking at our inner landscapes for the emotional roots of the world we create personally and politically.  

Much of what I do centers around childhood memories and experiences and is concerned with questions of cruelty and its source within us. I believe the fundamental human questions are about good and evil and that each person, culture, and even each civilization asks these through the lens of its own experience. Since I can remember, I have wanted to know what makes human beings capable of cruelty. I have come to believe that its primary source lies in our ability to deny our own pain, fear, and vulnerability.