From the beginning, it has been my intent to look at humanity on a spiritual level, focusing my attention on the Sacred in the Ordinary. Images of movement, change and transformation and a sense of being guarded, protected and nurtured in the transformative process are important to my vision. My understanding of being "guarded, protected and nurtured" does not lead to happiness, comfort and security. Instead, it acknowledges suffering as native to human existence. These visions are pursued within the mid-20th Century understanding of the shallow picture plane, which is particularly well suited to shapes and methods that are natural to iconography & tapestry....