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This evolving body of work questions male and female cultural identities, interactions between humans and other animals, surveillance, mass media representations, and linguistic habits. I utilize often dark and occasionally humorous imagery that provokes a confrontation with critical social and political issues. Advertisements and the handmade mark, manipulation and deconstruction, beauty and deformity are all part of the language used in this series. The velvety, deep black that veils the pieces enhances and obscures. It also covers and conceals, just as the content of the work brings up issues that are often uncomfortable, sugar coated, or accepted as the status quo. The pieces re-contextualize and juxtapose segments chosen from my own photographs with found images cut from popular magazines. I manipulate the images through the use of photomontage, the darkroom, and digital processes. Then, I rework the prints with traditional materials in order to bring about a more complex, layered depth both formally and conceptually.