still pertains

Great-Grandmother's Masculine Ambitions (Wedding Photo)

Painted soap, saved candy lid (part of grandmother's estate)

Great-Grandfather's Feminine Aspirations (Army Photo ID)

Painted soap, found jewelry box, duvet buttons

complete beginner too

what remains? the  Remainder

feminine and masculine coexisting in one body

through the human figure- through this human figure

clean and dirty

grief and joy coexisting

birth and death

timelessness

Soap pieces translated into video

Dust pieces translated into sound

Ani dialogue continuing through mixed media

Collapse of perceived time

Beginning every time- all time, no end

with Ani

It's ironic that it is Ani who is teaching me how to carve smiles.

Hers and Vaclav Havel's are the first positive expression I have carved.

Thank you and missing you, love!

For Anitra

complete beginner

two aspects of the same thing in the same space. 

human figure 

perceived dualities of:

above and the below

clean and dirty

conscious and unconscious

back and front

feminine and masculine

grief, anger, and stillness, as they relates to domesticity and Feminism.

beaded Morse–coded poems

Clean city streets

Air Dirty Laundry

life-long love of painting

fragility

precision

fear

attachment

discarded paper and found images

collapse of perceived time

hand held mirrors cast in porcelain to reflect the space around them

necklaces created using Morse code are beaded translations of texts that convert sound into form.

Figure paintings

Why is it agonizingly difficult for me to articulate what I do through the written word?

I feel like a complete beginner. Every. Time.