Allegories, parables, and nursery rhymes are purposefully fictional stories symbolizing or satirizing a truth. My sculptures and installations are appropriated from these literary genres while incorporating questions I have about truth and communication in politics and social policies.  I select passages from well known stories or authors and treat the imagery as readymades. Since there is information already ingrained, I can add my own humor and satire. Gulliver’s Travels, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and Dr Seuss books become sources for my work concerning censorship of books, the Patriot Act, a war based on unfound weapons, the definition of femininity, or the adaptation of traditions. I embed my work with texts from the past in order to speak about the present, at times integrating the pages or words from the text itself.         

As with reading, the process of art making is a rhythmic state. Paper, dirt, yarn, and cloth - the recurring materials in my work - are manipulated through a process of cutting, heaping, weaving, or wrapping. A divide between the original and the invented emerges - similar to politics and social policies; the space is small between fact and fiction.