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My evolving body of work questions male and female cultural identities, interactions between humans and other animals, stereotypes and mass media representations, and repressive linguistic habits. The work utilizes darkly humorous imagery that provokes us to confront critical social and political issues in our society. Advertisements and the handmade mark, manipulation and deconstruction, beauty and deformity, dreams and reality, psychology, politics, and symbolism are all part of the language of this work.

The deep black color that veils the pieces, beautifies and obscures. In this series, black represents the absence of daylight and the shadows that temporarily cover and conceal, just as the content of the work brings up issues that are often uncomfortable, sugar coated, or accepted as the status quo.

My pieces re-contextualize and juxtapose segments chosen from my own photographs with found images cut from popular magazines. Many of the pieces reference the process and aesthetic quality of x-rays. In the darkroom I shine light on and through images, making the internal structure visible. I manipulate the images through the use of photomontage, darkroom, and digital processes. Then, reintroducing my hand, I rework the prints with traditional materials in order to bring a more complex, layered depth both conceptually and formally to the work.