Integration, fusion, adoption, the blending of materials to craft works of transformation, contemplation, and beauty are what motivates me to create.  This embracing of materials, the claiming of the discarded metal, the pieces of collected detritus form the inspiration for my work.  These pieces have been thrown away, and devalued.  They are weathered, worn, aged and show the passage of time in their appearance and testify to a life once lived.  Messages of the past are spoken in the language of subtle colors, aged and torn edges, broken, fragile, and fragmented remnants.  Time and place are carried within these tenacious relics.  The stitching of and around these objects creates a journey, the constant, the presence of G-d, showing the hidden and revealed with both the metal and thread.  They combine to fashion a dialogue between what is known and what is seen versus what is unknown and unseen.  My art engages both the metal and the stitching along with paint to translate them into transcendent objects. Sacred spaces are created when they speak.   These discarded pieces invite a personal dialogue that allows the transformation of the insignificant to the valued and beautiful.   

Worn and discarded

The remnants of existence

Insignificant reminders of the past

Clothed, housed, contained in waxen splendor

Cry in transcendent voices

The language of redemption