Opening at the Goldleaf Gallery (inside Goldleaf Framemakers of Santa Fe) on Friday, November 24, 2006 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm

“I thought of the materials we now put in landfills: how they have a much more exotic nature than just regular garbage, being composed of rare metals, acids, plastics and solvents; and that these might mix with the rotting garbage to breed some,( here's where a B rated, sci-fi movie started swelling my mind) protuberant, lifeform. In my drawings, a shape like a tentacle and some egglet shapes emerged.

I added oil paintings, a medium that expanded the luscious, liquid thicknesses that the line work sometimes hinted at.  I also sculpted in a material I hadn't worked much with before; bronze.  I became entranced with challenging, "burn-out" techniques that produced "unique" bronze tentacles from my mixed media, burnable, materials. The death of each original sculpture in this process was, at first, petrifying to my 'saver' mentality. But, rewards were waiting in the way of exquisite, fine textures, and intricate forms that could then be embellished through wire brush polishing, chemistry patinas, and oil paint washes.