Fertility Series

These series of drawings employ anachronistic and amusing juxtapositions of art historical images with contemporary cultural icons. The concept of "bricolage," a term coined by Levi-Straus, best describes my methodology for creating visual meaning in the drawings. Bricolage is a way of tinkering, of messing about with concrete images that were originally culled through intuition. This tinkering further elucidates buried references and allows the artist and audience to make meaning clear and conscious. In my work, the viewer/reader is challenged to consider the "stories" that connect mythology to technology, traditional spirituality with contemporary secular experience, and objectification with consumerism.

These drawings engage the viewer in the construction of narratives that describe the morphing from past to present of icons of the feminine. Tales are invented that associate "natural" or spiritual fertility and reproduction— including calling into playful question the reproduction of art— with technologies, both archaic and contemporary. The viewer is invited to associate a network of cultural icons across time which relate to fertility and spirituality.