An understanding of the work comes through your senses.  Form is given to abstracted figures or surrogates in the guise of empty vessels.  The visual fragility of the cloth in my work contributes to associations of membrane, veneer and permeable skin, sometimes bruised and vulnerable, sometimes misshapen and marked upon. Like skin, cloth holds the wear and tear of time through stretching, abrasion, and sagging. I see my work as abstracted figures, whether as flat planes or as sculpture. They are constructed as emotional surrogates; empty vessels, thin skinned, splayed out, hung up, tattooed.