What fuels my work is the seduction of the past. I am drawn as most individuals of present day to a bygone era, and filled with an indescribable nostalgia. It is an idealization of a simpler lifestyle and a certain peace of mind that we see in the past that now seems lost. I am homesick for a time that I never experienced, a time that never really existed. In memory, this time becomes a transformed period of it's own, only existing in the mind.
Since I was a little girl I had this wistfulness and saw objects that were (or appeared) battered and worn as wreckage from that time passing. I was and am fascinated by objects, particularly any object you can find at a flea market or yard sale that was a part of someone's life and that is unfamiliar to me because it is now obsolete or "dated". When I touch these objects I can feel the life they were apart of and can imagine their importance when they were created. I see these ordinary things from the past as relics, because they are my passage to the life I never experienced.
I strive to create art is the tangible form of the lust for the past but is also very present in today's reality. I choose to work with lace and paisley pattern because of it's prominence in history, it's delicate quality, and it's lasting popularity in the decorative world. By working with lace and creating forms that use the pattern or structure within my sculpture, I am able to capture it's delicate beauty and nostalgic quality and turn it into a permanent object. I am so passionate about creating objects that have a diologue of reminiscence because the longing for the past is strangely universal, not just within myself. I find it is a collective need to reverse in progress to move forward and maintain the balance of life. I hope the pieces I make can create the feeling of serenity that we search for in the past, and a comfort in the tangible form of it.
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