Small figures gather at an opening in a barbed wire fence and dash across the open wall in my sculptural wall installation “Break”.  Entirely in white, these figures are encrusted in marble dust and white sand. The fence wraps itself to the other side of the wall where drawings and photographs of the world tipped on its edge conceptually confirm the feeling that the world is off kilter.

These pieces were well under way before the 2018 immigration crisis. My work never has been political, but I tapped into the zeitgeist. It enhanced my original intent —
to present the concept of duality — there is a positive side to every negative.
Fences and gateways are boundaries but are also a function of opposites. A slight shift of perception and that feeling of being on the outside transforms into freedom.

Even though a political seminal shift has taken place and we are all existing in a world on its edge, this world still projects beauty and kindness and is making people stretch into each other’s lives to maintain a sense of sanity. We are gathering together and finding the openings that lead upward.