Through the lens of my experience as an adoptee, my work explores themes of involuntary detachment, the concept of home and the absence of heritage. I am drawn to discarded items which are frequently used in my work. Torn cardboard or a broken Christmas ornament are valued and given space in my work. Sometimes I use a singular medium but typically my work combines painting, sculpture, printmaking and assemblage.

Where I begin with a piece is never where I arrive. Sometimes I repeat a piece in different mediums trying to find its true voice. A photo I took inside an empty pool becomes an etching and then a painting. Do they communicate how I felt in that pool, underground, pointing the camera at the abandoned home? One medium rarely satisfies me but the journey and experimentation is part of my process.

In a recent piece, I painted an abstracted moon in soft hues of white and pastels and embedded with earthly objects. Torn fabric from a man’s tie, a used cigarette, and a Blue Moon bottle cap are examples of items punctuating the moons painterly surface. She becomes a home for the discarded and broken.