My current body of work, paintings and installations explore the use of object and animal imagery to illustrate personal narratives which relate to the negotiation of home, marriage and family identity. These narratives are described through reoccurring iconic imagery such as cupcakes, balloons, birds and small mammals. This work negotiates the conflicting space that often exists within memory and anxiety about the complexity of relationships.

Physical space such as our homes and interiors are shaped by dominant cultural ideas, values and norms. In American society the home has traditionally been a feminine space that defines and is defined by women. Although these ideas have been eroding in our current environment they serve as the historical basis for which we have identified our gender roles. I am attempting to create a space where cultural codes construct gender in a symbolic universe.

Home life and family identity are central to my work and it is through this symbolic universe of objects that the metaphors for family identity are realized. The use of organic subject matter speaks about cultivation, representing metaphors for raising children. Ribbon and string imagery are used as anchors as pushing and pulling agents to represent midpoints between order and disorder of roles and responsibilities in a family's identity.