There's always some content inside me that I'm itching to bring to light. I look inside and I can see it there, a shadow of a thing; an irritant. So I turn to my materials and start digging. I literally dig in the mud and the ashes until this thing comes to the surface. I try to grasp it and feel it with every part of my mind.  I think about it with my hands and with my fingers. I touch this thing into being until it becomes impossible for it to be anything other than what it is. Sometimes, I'm embarrassed because I know that when people look at my work they will know something about me. They will know that I'm a woman, and that I have all these fears and desires, and lots of other little things about me and where I come from. But I just have to make this stuff anyway, because its what I really have to give. My embarrassment has always been a part of my process.

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