A Few Samples
Here are some examples of Masks and other Media pieces I have created over the years.
Selfie-Mural
2023, Mixed media
Always playing and working with a variety of materials. This Mask reminds me of home.
Changing My Narrative
2022, Mixed media, 2′ x 1′ x 2′
I am an obnoxiously positive person. I got lucky, I suppose. Even during the most devastating moments of my life, I got up the following day and kept going. There is always the next morning. Problems are just like fears. They don’t leave you until you solve them. You have to face them, so they don’t control you. Then you can change the narrative. I have earned this thick spine and am allowing myself to write my story with a different intent: freer, more self-assured.
Brasil
2023, Mixed media
Always playing and working with a variety of materials. This Mask reminds me of home.
Selfie
2017, Mixmedia
For her “St. Kate’s Selfie-Project,” she collected dozens of selfies from students at St. Catherine University, combining them in a 5-foot-tall three-dimensional collage.
Condensed Milk
2022, Mixed media, 2′ x 1′ x 2′
We all have coping strategies; some are healthier than others. Some are weird and painful. They carry us through difficult times, moments, and situations that would otherwise seem unbearable. Condensed milk was my distraction during my early teen years. I would drink condensed milk, looking for something sweet. Each “CAN” became a reason or an excuse to cover my condensed shame, condensed loneliness, condensed tears, condensed screams. Today, the cans can’t hold it anymore. They have all expired. They stayed in the ’80s.
Covid Hole
202, Mixed media, 2′ x 2′ x 2
Covid hole was a response from the time of sheltering in place, with no vision for the future, a holding, frozen in time feeling.
Hineni
Dec. 2024, Mixed media (leather, fabrics, wire, plastic, epoxy, foam), 4′ x 4’ x 12″
The name “Hineni” means “here I am.” The Mask is a collection of experiences and encounters of all these years living in the United States. Each Leaf is a month, each month a memory.