artist's statement 9/99 

My focus on the figure for the past 10 years is a simple attempt, really, to examine myself as a woman and the energy of all women in a concrete way. No great mystery there, except that maybe I really am a mystery to myself and I'm looking for a clue in these pieces.

Humor and sensuality are important in the newer work as I play with ways to combine my love of pottery with my love of the female form.

The question of the significance of the millennium isn't clear in my mind yet as how it may inform my work. But as I ponder it I consider several things that are converging in America today that frighten me: the strong tendencies toward a fear of the nude human body, book censorship and the movement against Darwin's Theory of Evolution. My fears in reference to these occurrences of censorship are that people are closing their minds to ideas of beauty, ideas of evolution/development and IDEAS, period, that may be different than their own. How far will this movement of concealing the human form in art, denying classic literature to the reader and espousing the theory of creationism over scientific theory go ????

In conclusion, to try and answer my question of how I may fit into all this turmoil; in my own very small way I am resisting these fears with a love of the sensual, the clay/earth/mud and the pun.