ARTIST STATEMENT

I sculpt the human figure. As a largely self-taught artist, the models for my work are the many people I have met over the course of my life. They are the church ladies with their hats from my childhood, the memories from having been a mother, the people I have met during my years of international travel and people from the many experiences I have had as an African American in this country. I think of my art as a vehicle for holding on to those memories and keeping them in my "present".