Currently I am working backward so to speak with designs I was working on about 7 years ago . At the time the galleries I was working with were not ready to take in these objects or ideas . My Ooparts & Private Confessional series are examples of reinventing . Ooparts means “ Out of Place Artifacts ” which are in fact ancient cultural objects that defy the evolutionary paradigm , and Private Confessionals are just that , personal talisman altar boxes to keep your secrets . Frustrating does not entirely cover my thoughts concerning timing and place in the art world . The benefit and sometimes the curse is that I am always working outside of someone else ’ s accepted “ box ” or the current “ trend ” even though I ’ ve been doing this for 30 years . I am independent and precocious .
I have an intimate knowledge of all my materials because I have hand harvested and collected them . Even my wax is now local sourced from young bee keepers within a few miles of my studio . Working with raw organic materials that carry their own mythologies of place by growing , being washed up on a beach or lost in a parking lot , also provides such a rich dialog to every work I design . When getting to know new materials in the studio I will boil them , set them on fire or pound them with rocks which transfers marks and make weaving materials more flexible . I don ’ t carry or use a sketchbook for my work .