As I move forward, I realize I am still processing the trauma inflicted by the storm. It has dredged up emotions connected to other traumatic events and losses in my life over the last few years. From the events of 9/11, when I worked less than a mile from Ground Zero and could feel the ground shake as the towers fell, to the ending of my long-term marriage, and the subsequent loss of a social community that anchored me for years, my art has come to be a place where I allow memory and experience room to expand, collapse, merge, overlap and redefine itself. Within my process, I am creating a home for the experiences that shape me, thus giving form to my art.
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