Works
PUBLIC ARTCommunity Grove
Dedicated October 12, 2010 Intertribal Community Park at Billings First Church Thicket Installed: June 7, 2019 Downtown Billings Alliance Public Art/Sculpture Under the Skypoint Program Unearthed Installed: July 30, 2019 Corner Minnesota Avenue and 28th Street, Billings, MT |
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FREEDOM SERIESIn these works, I explore physical representations of energy released from constraint.
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ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMENMy Ancestresses & Wise Women series responded to stories about the strong, older women in my family shared with me by my father as well as to the lack of mentoring I found in local younger women who were confused by sexual harassment. Within the circle of these life-sized, symbolic sculptures of women who had mentored me, I held Conversations Among Women, in which multi-generations of women could share, question and motivate each other around topics particular to their lives.
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CHRYSALISIn my Chrysalis series, based on Jungian Marian Woodman's concept of building symbolic spaces to protect oneself during vulnerable times of personal growth, I have explored cocoon, cave, cradle, and nest structures - space within which to create a loving communication with our own inner symbols and a connection with the unconscious and the soul. This series was also informed by Husserl's hermeneutic circle of questioning, seeking answers and reformulating the questions to get to a deeper understanding of our authentic soul. In these sculptures, I wanted to provide visualizations of this idea and a message that by taking time out to become clearer and to hear our internal messages, we can change ourselves and, thus, the world around us.
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COLLABORATIONSMany years after four other artists created Strong Intuitions: Five Women's Perspectives, which we presented over the summer in Billings, Montana, Malibu-based artist Sandra Mueller suggested that she and I form a new collaboration to create an installation and interactive event for Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, the art-based cultural exchange I directed in Shenyang, China in 2014.
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GROTTOESIn the mixed-media wall sculptures of my Grottoes series, I create shrines to and include video collages of my observations of the meditative, invigorating, seductive essence of water – rippling, cascading, flowing, effervescent… I envision these as another backdrop to conversations – this time about water rights and conservation – where the sculptures and their videos are visual reminders of water as common ground.
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LENS BASED ARTIn these works, I transpose my affinity for textures and layering into video.
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SEAFORMSThe pieces in my Sea Forms Series reflect this give and take of the water, the interconnected webs of reef life and the enclosed completeness of my diving experiences.
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