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I always draw first. Sometimes for a year or more before the sculpture comes. I create mixed media drawings–as many as 150 in a series–using a collage approach with ink, pencil, fabric, paper scraps, and most recently, thread stitching. These stitches are a drawing tool, making viable 'marks' on the paper. They offer me the joy of making something whole, putting things back together in the time honored tradition of women sewing.
My drawings are a loose narrative, a daily diary about the conversation and patterns that unfold between the content of an idea that has come to me and the different materials I use. As I work, I find the drawings cross-pollinate each other and form relationship clusters, much like chapters in a book. It is no small matter that pregnancy and childbirth influenced the creation of this work (Understory, Forest Becomes Ocean), and that my curiosity centered on evolution and growth particularly in relation to the sea.
At some point in my long drawing process, the idea for a sculpture emerges, becoming a culmination or summary of the drawing narrative. Sculpture brings my drawings to life. As I build something out of nothing–the origin of life–the thought-forms in the drawings become animated. During this process I sumultaneously search for a sense of place or structure, and that precise moment when a form comes alive.
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