"With audaciousness, Eve bit into the fruit that would both reveal and conceal the secrets to the cycles of the universe. She would unleash the Body's desire to celebrate its earthly inheritance. The Erotic offered wisdom beyond compare - to know herself, her body and psyche, and the power of the Feminine." Leah Libow

Currently I am creating a new body of work using doilies, seeds, moss, fruit, clay, clothing pattern illustrations, hooks and eyes, lace, and women's dresses. In my studio I see these objects as maps to the Feminine Psyche, Biology, Unconscious, and Mythology. In my studio I am both artist and archaeologist, pulling these maps out from under layers of culturally imposed meaning, and revealing their true nature and power.

Artist Statement

Using my body as both object and source, I uncover and reveal the power and force of the Archetypal Feminine. I map both the personal and cultural unconscious, which ultimately become a model of female experience that begins with relationship to lineage and history, eventually moving beyond them and returning to a sensual relationship with the earth.

In my work, I explore the erotic root of the feminine, which moves beyond cultural ideas of sensuality as sex and instead focuses on the body and its interaction with the sensual world. I use the tension between the private world – where all women are connected with the erotic and sensual via their body’s cycles – and the public world where women are tied to a history that is not theirs.

Where thread in the hands of a woman invokes ‘traditional women’s craft’, thread in my hands becomes the Feminine literally performing the female body as a way of actualizing itself in the physical world.

As an artist, I believe that the act of creation is a performance, which brings forth the essence of each of the materials that pass through my hands. The performative interaction between my body and the cloth, needle and thread, and miscellaneous ‘feminine’ objects, allows them to reveal their deepest secrets.