My work combines imagery of women and children pulled from various sources like coloring books, fetish magazines, and other artworks with textile and wallpaper designs from the last three-hundred years. The textile patterns are really the spring-board for my work. I look for patterns and colors that catch my eye and then work them into a kind of unique, abstracted landscape. I then weave reoccurring favorite shapes and images into them. Once I start to get something I like, I incorporate the figurative elements, which are usually line drawings that interact with the "landscape."

I want these works to be provocative and seductive, taking something decorative and beautiful on the surface and making it more complex and a little discomforting. As I make this work, I'm considering my own roles as mother, artist, homemaker, and wife and my struggle to balance these many faces in a society with little real support for families. The promises of my own youth - that women could "have it all," including career, family, social life, and upward mobility, seem hollow, naive, and unattainable. The reality of living in circumstances that are less privileged than my parents is stinging, and the pressure to sacrifice everything for my role as mother and homemaker is overwhelming. I see women all around me struggling with the same issues, trying to keep their identities as sensual, thinking women, while nourishing their families and their careers. These are the pressures and restraints I'm considering as I make these images.