I am fascinated by the functions that all materials, whether human-made or natural, are subject to performing and am always searching for the possible relationships among them—always seeking to assemble, arrange and connect them in ways that speak to concepts that I am visually processing. I use color, texture, pattern and found materials the same way that musicians use instruments—conjuring sounds, that then are arranged

and composed to produce music.
Growing up in New Orleans, I experienced music and dance as forms of expression that allow us to be most in our bodies, to have and own our bodies. I defined this as real

freedom.
Using a system of collage and mixed media techniques, I transcribed and conceptualized

musical elements into visual (bodily) elements where figures are in freeze frame—still, yet visually vibrating, moving.

In those early collages, I captured what I witnessed happening when bodies experienced music, moved, expressed, and tried to process their experiences, their existence.

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