My work investigates the body as it intersects with culture, history, and psyche.

I am especially interested in fat, aging, and the culturally unacceptable body. I am
both attracted and repulsed by the desire to re-form the body through the
self-inflicted bodily trauma of surgical intervention.

I often use the garment form as a framing device to present selected portions of the
body and to reference cultural associations. The resulting sculptures appear to be
both clothing and parts of bodies. This ambiguity implies similarities between the
relationship of a person to her or his body and that of the body to its clothing. It
contends that a contemporary person wears her or his body as a decorative object
separate from the self. Like clothing, the body can be altered or made over to suit
various cultural needs. Its attributes can be carefully accented or altered,
obsessively planned and compulsively maintained.