Liaisons (2014, 2015), a two-woman show with painter Annette Poitau, had two permutations: at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) in Oberlin, Ohio, and at the Mansfield Art Center in Mansfield, Ohio.

I am interested in the interplay between the ephemeral nature of life, the permanence of beauty, and the persistence of memory. These sculptures consider how the residue of the past retains: whether expressed through colors that are carefully created through resists or overdyeing, through multiple layers, or through the empty spaces that remain when objects are removed from the fabric.  Hung to form various configurations of textured planes, this work responds to subtle air currents, often created by the movements of viewers.

The size of many of these pieces also helps them perform as sentinels for - or , perhaps, dancers of - memory: large, diaphanous beings with fluid edges, that function in relationship to what is both present and absent. By creating lines as well as openings, and by articulating positive and negative space, their edges frame information - or demarcate the lack of information - caught within, behind or beyond their edges. 

This work is dedicated to the memory of my lost child, who saw the first permutations of this work just months before her death. Everything I make begins from the palimpsest of that deepest, primordial relationship (2014).

Photography by John Seyfried

Mansfield Art Center

FAVA Gallery