Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.
We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now see as the forms within forms in my crocheted wire sculptures.
I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life - Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist.
