During my Fulbright grant to Spain several years ago, I began to explore the Catholic concept of the woman as a “pure, expectant vessel.” I immersed myself in the symbols and attributes associated with the female saints and the Virgin Mary, and I became fascinated by the their implicit messages about femininity. My interest in this symbolism now emerges in my work as metaphorical elements resembling eggs (fertility, productivity, purity) and eyes (voyeurism, perception, judgment, the male gaze). Now these literal symbols have evolved into a personal vocabulary of more abstracted, less specific shapes.

My paintings have become internal landscapes in which elements- possibly visceral objects from the environment within the human body- are adrift or submerged in a nebulous space. Made of forms resembling something biological yet ambiguous, they are like personal narratives or meditations of drifting, pulling apart, converging, ascending, and descending. Within these atmospheres I seek to evoke a sentiment or mood. Through my painting process I recognize an urge to explore a veiled world of suggestion.