I use sculptural form to tell mythical stories about motherhood, ancestral disconnection, spiritual vacancy and discovery, grief, internalized Anti Semitism and homesickness. I use materials intentionally to scrape, stab and scour at certain cultural signifiers relevant to my experience growing up in a working class Ashkinazi family on Cree, Ojibwe and Metis land, colonially known as Winnipeg, Manitoba.  I wonder if synthetic materials are the hyper-embodiment of generational trauma. My work examines the fractures in familial, ecological and spiritual relationships. Through the sculptural process, I pursue visual modalities of healing, submission and liberation. 

I examine and re-examine how my creative practice and my spiritual practice are the same strange thing.  I am Mother to Galileo, an Associate Professor of Sculpture at California College of the Arts, Goalie for the Oakland Night Herons and run the kitchen at my Shul. 

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