Personal Statement: Edith Wharton said that a personal life is like a house with many rooms, the public ones brightly lit and open for display, but that she had lived all her life in a small dark room in the attic, desperately waiting to be discovered, for the sound of footsteps in the hall...

I work in a studio in an attic. My installation, bookmaking, print, and multimedia work is about the wisdom of mad women from the 18th and 19th centuries and what the legacy of their words brings us, women in the 21st century. I am interested in mad women and the spaces they occupy, literally and figuratively, and lately I am interested in the feminist history of architecture and design, in the modern rejection of ornament and flourish and what that means for the feminine aesthetic and the spaces women occupy.