My work is fed by a fixation with the absurd and a fascination with disposable icons. Old tin T.V. trays, lunch boxes, and wooden gameboards become the surfaces for paintings in which I like to explore everything from the sordid life-and-death styles of celebrated Americans to the forbidden fantasies of cartoon characters.

These paintings reflect what I consider to be the mythology that molded and sculpted who my generation became...well, if not them then certainly me. Perhaps in the past young women would have patterned themselves on paragons of piety and chastity from the Bible, and before that mythology. But I grew up wanting to be as sexy as Catwoman, as clever as Emma Peel, as resourceful as Samantha on Bewitched.

I also find the deification of dead presidents, celebrities and other heroes very compelling: that it doesn¹t seem to matter how they died or what kind of wonderfully squalid lives they led inspires me to explore the nature of their martyrdom. Sometimes making references to well known works of art, the trays and boxes also harken to my childhood growing up in suburban Virginia, and "white trash" culture. .