Goodbye Kansas

The work created during this period represents a time of experimentation. For many years, my husband, a professional ceramic artist, and I shared a home studio. In 2008, we moved the studio out of our home and up to Yonkers. The distance made it difficult for me to get to the studio and forced me to begin working with simple everyday materials such as collage, acrylic and watercolor paint, paper, and packing tape. I would come home from my job as an art therapist at a day treatment program for adults with mental illness and explore my own psychological journey. The work in this series is a visual depiction of my grief and my struggle to understand myself as separate from the environment of my childhood..