The Turquoise Shoe and Other Stories
   
Works from this series were shown in a solo exhibition in 1994 at the Provincetown Art Association and 
Museum (Provincetown, Massachusetts).

I wrote the following essay for the catalog which accompanied the exhibition:
   
	Veiling oneself has always been a feminine act, whether actual or metaphorical. It can
	indicate reverence or modesty, self–protection or submission. It can whisper of things not 
	revealed. While this series of works could be interpreted as political-–sexual or otherwise-–
	it is first about the search of a woman trying to find her source. It is a spiritual journey, 
	but the use of bones and shells, eggs, and nests, insects and hair and animal parts keeps 
	her deeply connected to the physical world.
   
	The works were originally inspired by a woman who travelled around the world and
	disappeared in Zanzibar. Later, through unusual circumstances, I acquired some of her 
	belongings-–her luggage, postcards she sent home, some photographs, diary notes and so
	on. I was strangely moved by her and by her courage to travel through this dangerous
	world, wanting to become whole. Not all the things I reveal about her are fact, but they 
	are all true.
   
	The root of the word "narrate" comes from the Latin word "to know," and in that sense,
	all art is an attempt at narration. Through these works, I have tried to discover something 
	about this woman. they tell not the sequence of her journey or the essence of her
	experience, but they are like layers of a moment or pieces of dreams I've had about her.