I like taking pretty to a level of beautiful disturbance.  Pretty entices through its loud, bedazzled and laced adornment, beckoning the viewer to approach.  In mass quantities, prettyoverwhelms, but it can also quietly seduce.

My work performs this seduction through appeals to nostalgia, play and the body.  By way of traditional handicraft I create myriad scenes of girlhood and womanhood, interpreting moments where the two intersect into hyper and hybridized experiences of the female and the feminine.  One especially successful interpreter in these explorations has been Girl, a fictional character crafted from personal girlhood memories.  In conversations with Girl, I consider how pretty, the female, and the feminine can converge into visual dialogues that excite and interrupt the sensibilities of the viewer.

In these in between spaces, I make room for the beautiful disturbance: the toothache that proceeds a sweet tooth’s frenzied sugar binge.  I derive pure pleasure from crafting three-dimensional objects and spaces that delight and overwhelm the senses of my viewers, allowing them to pulse between exquisite ache and abundance. This sensuous engagement with the viewer is a carefully choreographed seduction, arranged to offer a liminal, intimate, encounter with the lush, plush and sugar-encrusted.  It is a practice in both comfort and discomfort.