Persons
Looking back, I realize I have always been fascinated by depictions of the human form, especially ones with spiritual qualities like the saints in Christian art, ancient statues and Kachina dolls. I loved making doll clothes from scraps, and dressing up my younger sisters and cousins in bizarre costumes. As an elementary art teacher ...
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Places
Considering early inspiration for sculpture depicting environments, I remember creating elaborate sand castles embellished with anything that lay at hand—stones, leaves, weeds, shells, twigs. All children begin to symbolize house with a square topped by a triangle but I went much further by building them in three dimensional space using scrap materials Mom ...
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Things
As a child, I was intrigued by the practice of archeology. I would spend hours with books from the local library, studying photographs of ancient objects lying in the soil, labeled and surveyed to preserve their context. It wasn’t long before I was fabricating my own exotic artifacts and burying them in the back yard-- my own personal “dig”. Forming objects using the...
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Ideas
Nothing illuminates my studio practice more than this quote from Becoming Human Through Art, an art education text by Edmund Burke Feldman: “Art is something you do about something that interests, worries or pleases you.” I have found great satisfaction in using the visual arts to express my point of view on some of the most important elements of the human condition...