My paintings are concerned with the complex nature of personal identity and public persona, particularly focusing on women and culture. Simultaneously, I have long been interested in the metaphorical potential of objects as conveyors of meaning. By incorporating the object into the mix of varied painting events on the canvas, I attempt to mimic how information comes to us and how meaning is made, bit by bit — real life alongside memory, poetry next to prose.

This work reflects my interests in "directed perception"-that is, how I see a thing when it has been pointed out to me, or when some aspect of it suddenly captures my attention. I find that seeing is selective. Landscape elements or other objects surrounding or acting as background to the indicated thing are within my visual field, but I do not perceive or recall them. This paradox of vision, that I see and remember only that which has caught my interest, is carried further in the presentation of these images.