Solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Oakland, California spring 2025

The women and girls are floating, falling, running and escaping. Leaving this world. Their feet on not on the ground. They are in some strange space. Everything that was up is now down. There is wonder, confusion, fear. Women are being barred from bodily autonomy and access to health care. Roe vs Wade was crushed. The man in the highest position in our country and in the world is an This collection is my gut reaction to events of this time. It also has a related but different resonance, the concept of floating, of not being tethered to earth. As an older person I feel this. The possibility of other worlds beyond ours, other ways of knowing.avowed sexual abuser and convicted of sexual assault. The most vulnerable in the country are vilified. So what does one do when it seems like everything one took for granted is gone or going?
None of the figures have landed. This is important, because in a darker mind, their bodies would be slammed into the ground and painted in muted browns and grays. I do not want to imagine this and cannot go there.
I love costuming and theater. The costume is what is next to the skin, it’s as important as fur is to an animal. Many years ago I was an editorial fashion photographer in NY and London, and what I loved best about that job was the potential of narrative. Who exactly is the woman in the photograph? It was up to me to first create her, give her lines and direction, set the stage with appropriate props, and the right lighting. Fashion tells you who the character is as much as her stance, or expression.