I started drawing when I was very young, bedazzled by the world of cartoons and superheroes and comic strips. I drew a lot of inspiration from them, drawing so many dinosaurs and Daffy Ducks and Batman. As I grew into a more mature artistic practice (which I know now was a mistake and have resolved to claw back my immaturity.) I had to completely revise my approach to the human figure. If you did not know, comic book superheroes are not the best place to learn accurate human anatomy....

I return to the place where the Salmon spawn. My children bring me offerings of flowers, leaves, and stones as we walk along the rushing water. I hold up a branch of Asters dappled with light from the dancing trees above. Aaron and I stop under a bridge listening and watching, paying attention. We take a moment to feel the water flowing over our hands. We start to return back home. The kids run ahead with their dad, while I slowly follow behind. As I turn a corner, I am transported to a...

the yellow wallpaper is an installation of over 200 clay tiles of various floral shapes in yellow tones, hung to resemble wallpaper. These tiles were formed in the same process as the sugar cookies of my childhood. Both dough and clay rolled by hand, cut with stainless steel cutters of various shapes and sizes. My studio space is most often my kitchen, so clay and cookies inhabit the same space, the identities of artist-mother working in parallel, in tandem. Rooting my work quite firmly in...