As an artist, I am concerned with two Modernist traditions: Post-painterly Abstraction and Duchampian selection and editing. Working with both photography and painting, I establish parameters to obtain final images that originate from haphazard activity. The image is, to a large extent, left to chance and beyond my control. While painting I allow the paint to run, congeal, create pattern, surface, texture and form on the canvas surface, with minimal intervention. In my photography, I use preexisting images that have been cropped and manipulated by a magazine editor or layout artist. I then re-contextualize the image, by either adding to or subtracting from certain areas. The added shapes and images are randomly created, and my intervention at this point becomes an extended sort of editing.

Having both a mother with whom I was raised, and a biological mother I have never met, I draw from a personal archive of representations of the female form and maternal figures. In my photographic work I play with the female image, transforming it from something recognizable to something unknown. Investigating the questions raised in the objectification of the female form, I use my art as a catharsis for very personal issues: my relationship to self, to the maternal figure, to sexuality, wealth, luxury and achievement. I am fascinated by dualities, opposites, conflicts and the tension created by the juxtaposing of negatives and positives.

In my painting, I select a specific shape or negative space from the painting process mentioned above. I then repeat and overlay these shapes on the preexisting surface to the point where the painting assumes the visual function of camouflage. This repetition obscures the original image, hiding the origin (or self) behind a monochromatic veil. Because they deal with issues of group identification, the wearing of uniforms, and abuses of power, these camouflage paintings become a metaphor for both personal legacy and conformity. We camouflage or overlook the victim; this is how the disempowered become invisible.