My core motivation is that ART CAN INSPIRE EMOTION and emotion inspires humanity and care of the beings and places of our surroundings.

It is critical that I utilize materials that support or enhance my conceptual ideas.  I work with glass because it is very strong but simultaneously imparts a sense of fragility and light.  These seemingly competing forces make glass captivating and also reflect the tensions of daily life.  I would like viewers of my work to feel the contrasting, internal and external, forces contained within our surroundings.  I want to celebrate awe-inspiring forms of nature and commiserate on the tragedies and triumphs of being human in a time when we cannot help but be increasingly cognizant of our impact on any environment.

I often use the form of a dress as a medium of self-portraiture.  The dress offers a path for many of my  sculptures to embody and communicate  personal emotion while leaving room for viewers to attach their own meaning and imaginings.  I am currently focused on casting glass in response to elements of memory and landscape, amplifying some of their qualities, and recombining disparate parts in a manner to exaggerate tension, balance, and fragility.