My personal practice takes the body as a starting point, using it as a material in which to explore the forces that work with and against it, be they environmental or societal. My interest is in the tensions that are created when these materials are brought together and intertwined with the body. Though beginning in collage and predominantly drawing based, my practice also includes work with wax, ceramic and soft sculpture using pillows pulled taut with wire to relate ideas of physical comfort, malleability, and restraint. The body is over encumbered, but there is also a deliberate ambiguity of struggle and mergence in the works, the body becomes treated as an equivalent material, an object that can be shaped, adjusted, and re-organized. Recent investigations focus on the maternal experience through a visceral, social, and political lens.