The intensity of contemporary culture permeates the media and reaches out through technology to grab all of us. The complexity of this aggressive, layered reality has been growing for years. My sculptures and installations present social narratives that investigate inner consciousness and indicate rare and solitary moments of contemplation. The sculptures portraying the female as a young adult capture the time when there is great potential and the ability for self-evolution. The feminine body is a symbol of the intuitive self. In their form and whiteness the sculptures relate to Greek classicism. Each is an idealized composite where the idealized body reflects the purity of an ideal state. The sculptures seduce through aesthetics.  Beauty creates and sustains visual memory. My installations combine photography with the ceramic figure set in architectural surroundings often punctuated with still life elements used to convey a sense of the outer world.

Three themes have been investigated. Early works are based on my concern with contemporary spirituality. The compositions in white are inspired by intimate yet universal memories of feminine youth; presented as nostalgic social narratives. My current sculptures focus on environmental impacts to human health.

Research combining science and art began with, “Garden”, completed and exhibited in 2010. This large installation incorporating over 350 sculptural elements with china paint photo-decals and hanging back lit photo-transparencies conveys issues about industrialized farming and the impacts of current farming practices to our food sources. In Garden, the female figure; carries a carefully balanced vintage American water pitcher on her head. A metaphor for cleansing and supported by her fractured arm the association is that of dysfunction. Fate, signified by her upturned hat, has landed within the field of cosmos daisies. The Kosmos flower has been found to actually remove toxins from the soil. Ceramic seed packets with artist created labeling display imagined “Seeds of Hope”. The figure walks toward a distant, floating window only to find on its reverse side pictures of farmland watered by industrial irrigation.

“Summers Over” completed in 2011 explores the effects of the Gulf Oil Spill upon aquatic biota, specifically the Gulf Menhaden. This artwork has been informed by research collaboration with UF scientists who worked on the Gulf Oil spill clean-up team. Gulf Fish and Wildlife scientists at Cedar Key provided menhaden specimens from which the fish were sculpted. The Gulf Menhaden, a small bait fish, called “the most important fish in the sea “, (H. Bruce Franklin’s most recent book), is the food source for larger species as well as the source for human used fish oil and omega 3 acids. It is thought likely that the impact of oil within the aquatic biota can bio-magnify from this species up the food chain.