"The materials I choose act as metaphor for the two worlds I am from, and so illustrate how they are inseparably bound together in me. There exists an inherent tension between man-made and natural materials, modern versus indigenous--one always wants to consume the other. The trick is to strike a balance between the two, a harmony. The cocoon figure in my work represents transition, change--that search for harmony in my life."

New Art of the West: The Fourth Eiteljorg Museum Invitational. (Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 1994).

1993, mixed media sculpture
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, acc. 94.1.14

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