"Blessed Art Thou." is a show that spiraled out of a piece entitled "Among Women" which was a part of the '97 Expo at the 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX earlier the same year. This show was very pivotal for my art-making and focus. "Blessed Art Thou" was my exploration into the feminine aspects in life all around me; mother, sister, friends, as well as the femininity within myself.

Marta was an older cousin of mine who in the prime of her life was stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. She was bedridden for years and slowly wasted away in her bed. I was in college when she passed away, and felt very removed from the world as I was caught up in this new world full of new people. Her death pulled me out of that world in a way that I had never experienced. This piece, named for her, was a big part of my grieving process.

"Immaculate" was a piece in which I tried to put a human face on a corporate being whose foreboding approach I was dreading as the academic world was ending and time for entering "the real world" approached.

It's both about motherhood and finding beauty in things and entities that we might not otherwise.

In grade school I read a Russian Folk Tale about a little lost boy who was looking for his mother. He would approach people and ask, "Have you seen my mother? She is the most beautiful woman in the world."

"Femininitea" was my first attempt at using smell in my art. It consisted of perfume poured into a white tea cup and doily atop a hairpiece. It was topped off with a spice tea bag personalized with a tag.

I wanted to talk about femininity at one of it's most visceral levels. This piece is about pheromones.