What have we done to our world, and is there a possibility that we can change what increasingly appears to be a bleak future?
Is there any evidence for hope? Is there a kind of melancholic beauty to this, and how am I to show both in my work?
My work explores my experience as a woman who has lived her whole life in western New York State, in a dying post-industrial city.
It is also about my understanding of myself as a woman who is also growing older and experiencing changes in my mind and body as well as my life roles.
Despite leading an admittedly upper middle class existence, the problems of a declining community have affected me deeply.
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, my home is a microcosm of what is happening to our country and much of the industrialized world.
I transform my world into an abstraction in order to delve into it deeper emotionally and let the viewer bring his or her own preconceptions into it. 

This is one of my goals: to transform my experience and distill it to its essence.