I have since childhood continued down the garden path following the examples set by my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, who have always been wonderful gardeners. I, too, tend gardens - my real gardens, the one outside on my roof in Manhattan, the forest growing on my land in Montana and the street trees in my city neighborhood -- from these come the strength, imagery and inspiration for my art -- my virtual gardens -- on paper, as objects, in performance/installation and film/media/Web.

My art work continues an ongoing study of women expressed through personal experience, observation, intuition, and invention -- a sharing of common experience. Exploring the domestic image of women, I construct, perform and film work that symbolizes aspects of domesticity and feminine place as represented by such cultural icons as 'home - hearth - garden.' The identification of purpose through signification of the familiar, the banal, the everyday ...

Female issues -- social, biologic, historic, mythologic -- form the guts of my work.