My mother is a very strict catholic while my
father will sit around and make pope jokes.  It’s very
funny for everyone except her and there is a lot of
tension in our family about religion.  I try to use
that as a source for ideas.  I don’t really work on
concepts about religion but about the tension that is
there.  My sister is the only one in my family who is
outspoken.  My mother and father are both very quiet
like myself.
     Most of my work deals with being quiet and
“painfully shy”.  I was the kid who didn’t say one
word until fourth grade.  I’m still very timid, but I
like it that way.  When I am in a crowd or attention
is called to me, I get a dizzy almost dream like
feeling.  I want other people to see that feeling and
state of mind in my work.  I did a series of
photographs in the woods.  The trees are dark and I
moved the camera so there is a blurry movement.  It
became abstracted almost to the point that they didn’t
look like trees, but the sense of dizziness and
feeling lost really came out.  Photography is my
primary medium.  I want to keep working with this
concept of shyness and my feelings towards it. 
     My main influences are surrealist photographers.
There’s not any one in particular, but their work is
dreamlike and odd and it still holds up today.
     I’m starting a new series of a girl who is
extremely tall.  She’s standing on stilts with a long
skirt on so she looks abnormal.  I feel really tall,
like I’m standing out sometimes, which makes it hard
to hide. 
     I’ve also really gotten into fibers and weaving.
It is so meditative and addicting but I’m still trying
to incorporate a feeling of being lost into it.  I am
going to try to do a weaving that resembles a cocoon
or some kind of hiding place.  I can relate a lot with
caterpillars and insects that use cocoons because I
love to hide in a big coat or blanket.  It’s a
security cocoon.