Through
my practice over the past thirty-five years, I’ve sought connection
with the oldest made things and the soil from which they are shaped.
Acknowledging the power of ancient presences, and landscapes is
integral to the creation of my drawings, paintings, collages,
photography, and fine art books. Through assignment-driven travels
with my husband, photographer Macduff Everton, I’ve learned that
travel increases my sense of humanity, makes me take risks, reveals
and undermines my prejudices, and stretches my conceptions about art.
Physical place has been a wellspring. Recent and enduring projects
have emerged from the vine-choked ruins of Southeast Asia, the
Pacific Ocean’s deckled edge from North to South America, the
ancient cave art sites in Southwestern France, Patagonia and
Iceland’s rugged terrain and the Himalayas.
I
find that an intense experience in a natural site — the smells,
feel touch and cultural memory — imbues a place with a sacredness
that demands something of me. I employ various media and processes as
a means to touch the nerve of being alive and connected to land and
people across time. I try to notice what is vivid and link that with
a sensual well-crafted process. My work bears witness to the evidence
of time and impermanence, beauty and loss, the nets of translation
and the holes through which meaning slips. This is where I aim.