As an artist, I am interested in the dialectics of different realms of experience: the
        physical and the metaphysical, nature and culture, art and science.

        I take great pleasure in collecting and sorting, combining and transforming found objects.
        Over the years, I have collected bits of nature and culture, which carry with them their own
        history.  My collections began with mineral specimens from my father, who was a mining
        engineer and geologist, and natural objects which my mother and I collected on our walks
        along lake shores and forest paths.  In my recent series, Matters of the Heart, I use a
        diversity of gathered objects, combining natural materials with biomedical devices which
        were collected as part of my research about the heart.  I combine materials, weave my
        presence into them and in this process, something new emerges.   The work becomes an
        interface between such apparent opposites as matter and spirit, nature and the human-made,
        art and science.