• How does a feminist perspective inform views on militarism?

• How do we respond to a women as a participant,
rather than a victim, of military violence?

• How are women assuming and internalizing
the lessons of militarism?

• What are the consequences of trying to address
this topic through an aesthetic form?

As an artist in the studio, I engage in a variety of concerns and activities: context, construction, depiction, artifice, critique and conversation. As a citizen in the world, I respond to a multitude of images and events, most of which I have had no hand in creating.

I think it is relevant for artists to participate more directly in this highly politicized world. Our voices, images, interpretations and critiques need to be a part of the conversations that are so often dominated by politicians, policy-makers, PR firms and pundits. In showing work that is overtly political and feminist, I have found a space to have conversations that otherwise might not have occurred and, often, more common ground than I expected.