Polymer, clay, oil, and found objects
26" x 25" x 11" buy here
Charting New Courses
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Life Into Lemonade
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint & Found Objects,
27” x 15” x 15”
Nasty Woman
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint, and Found Objects,
40” x 14” x 14”
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Rise, and Shine
Polymer clay, oil, and found objects, 27” x 12” x 20”
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She Felt So Wrapped Up in Other Peoples Expectations
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She Found Herself Along the Way
Polymer clay, oil paint and found objects,
18” x 17” x 7”
She is Tossed by the Waves but Never Sinks-Resilient Refugee
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She Moved on But the Memories Remained
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She Told Me Her Beautiful Secrets
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She Took a Seat at the Table
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint, and Found Objects,
18” x 9” x 7”
She Would Find Her Own Way and Making Her Own Luck
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The Absence of Memory Would Be the End of Everything
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint & Found Objects,
38” x 8” x 9”
The Dual Nature of Love
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There's No Place Like Home
Polymer clay, oil, and found objects, 24” x 7” x 18”
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Time to Take the Wheel
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint, and Found Objects,
27” x 15” x 9”
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We Are All In This Together
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We are Wild and Beautiful Things II
Polymer Clay, Oil Paint, and Found Objects,
31” x 22” x 7”
We are Wild and Beautiful Things IV
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You Will Become Stronger in All the Broken Places 72
Polymer clay, oil, and found objects, 48” x 19” x 19”
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You're Ready to Fly
Polymer clay, oil, and found objects, 25” x 7” x 7”
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When creating a piece, I take what is most personal and assume it is universal. I use my own experiences and emotional responses, and turn them into a narrative work that suggests to the viewer a peek into their own life. The stories I tell are about inner worlds revealed – the things that we are not supposed to talk about and perhaps not supposed to feel, about our bodies, our families, and our life’s choices. The actual pieces are a process all my own. As I sculpt, I push the polymer clay past its intended size and boundaries, then incorporate found objects, and finally paint the baked clay with layers of oils. All parts share importance, but the actual objects – rusty metal and weathered wood, decaying bones and empty boxes, scraps of fabric and bits of paper – this abandoned debris connects the sculptural world I have created to the actual world of the viewer. They are a bridge from my imagination to theirs, and although the story I mean to tell may differ from what the viewer ultimately takes away, what is most important is that we have shared the tale.
