ARTIST STATEMENT

“I draw on traditions as diverse as:

the inpatient psychiatric work of Dr Nise Da Silviera in Brazil,

her belief in the preciousness of the artistic expression within psychosis and the eventual establishment of the

Museum of the Unconscious;

the emotionally purgative function of Louise Bourgeous’ sculptures;

the Surrealist’s comprehension of the Primary Process language of dreams;

and the Hybrid figures and Shape-Shifting fluidity of Shamanic journeying”