The ongoing exploration in my paintings is in the
transformational nature of identity. The chapters that naturally
form with time: of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood--
collectively form a layered existence. Sensory clues become seeded
within our memory, cataloging both the monumental and the
mundane.

     Later these clues resurface among the patterned likeness of our
days, appearing faded yet familiar. In these memories a distant
reflection of who we once were is recovered. But details are
scattered... and we are left to question what really happened in the
years that mark our existence?

     In time, moments are masked over, rubbed out, altered to fit into a
selective, false memory. Can we trust what we remember as the truth if
memory is selective? The way an experience is interpreted shifts; what is
remembered and what is lost or replaced, the details in time rearranged to
fit a new perspective.
 
      In my paintings, they are a fragmented mapping of
consciousness, as I piece together my own history and the stories of
the girl who once was me.