artist's statement
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My artwork combines drawing, printmaking, sculpture, book art, and photography to explore the interconnected value of identity and memory. My multi-media approach to art reflects the unique way I experienced the world growing up in an old farmhouse in the French countryside. The values of preservation, attachment to roots and relationship with land and time, emphasized in my childhood, continues to inspire my work. By exploring and juxtaposing subtle links between anatomy, psychology, ecology and cosmology, I try to understand the mysteries of our inner and outer selves. Likewise, in seeking to reveal the world's invisible energies, knots and folds, fragments and marks, I strive to raise awareness of the key role that nature plays in our lives.