I still remember the taste of the bar of Dial soap between my teeth as my Mom counted to ten.  Tears streaming down my face as she told me ‘ladies don’t talk like that’.  

My practice utilizes analog collage with tangible materials to explore the contradictions and complications presented by the representation of the American Dream, the evolution of memory, and to critique the art market.  By recontextualizing artifacts associated with earlier generations of female practice and portrayal — such as sewing notions, cookbooks, the practice of scrapbooking or vintage pornography — I reclaim them for a new generation, challenging the experiences and expectations of traditional femininity.  When appropriating artworks, the pieces are cut, punctured, and disassembled in ways to emphasize the disproportional representation or discourse presented primarily at auction.

That bar of soap did not silence me that day.  In fact, it stands out in my mind as my earliest form of rebellion.  It unleashed a woman to create her own language; one dainty as rose petals, violent as fireworks, cutting as a razor's edge.