The animal imagery began in my quilting as an effort to build my own world. I was living in an urban area of Chicago and felt very bound by the city. But thinking sometimes can the best way to travel. I found nature within myself and stitched it into my quilts. I found I had the need for the swiftness of heron wings, and the splash of the frog pond. What I didn’t have where I lived, I manufactured for myself from hand-dyed cotton, organza and thread.

I find my work growing like the wilderness in my garden. I garden much the same way I quilt. Nothing exceeds like excess.  My new work reflects the abundance of the wild. I have always seen my self and the people around me in my animals, fish and fins, feathers and scales. I see them dancing through the checks and balances of societies.   I work largely in animal imagery, because that is the imagery that springs out of my spiritual well.   My colors reflect that natural world.  But I’ve come to know that the animals represent people around me and myself.

The nature of nature is variance. All the distinctions between us add to the richness of our world. The beauty of a frog or beetle reflects the individual beauty we all have, past the conventions of the public media. Past the place where we are all supposed to look, act and dress the same is our nature, the nature of variance, the nature that claims each of us as unique and exquisite, within our own world.