An exercise in taking up space, embracing authenticity, and refusing to play small. There is something strange about becoming sixty.

You reach an age when the world begins to look through you. Women become less visible. Less interesting. Less desirable. We are expected to quietly move toward the edges—to make room, to become background.

But what if becoming invisible to the world creates an opportunity to finally become visible to yourself?

I’s, My’s & Me’s is a body of work about that contradiction.

My work questions identity and value through distorted beliefs, fragmentation, collage, and self-portraiture. This new body of work is larger, more physically assertive, and more vulnerable than anything I have made before. The scale is intentional. After a lifetime of learning how to make myself smaller, I wanted to make something I could not hide behind.

For much of my life, I was a supporting character in the lives of others.  I became who and whatever I needed to be. I learned to anticipate, accommodate, please, and adapt. These were survival skills, and for a long time I mistook them for personality.

It wasn't until my divorce in 2016 that I seriously considered a question that seemed almost embarrassingly simple:

What do I want?

Years later, I have a better answer to that question.

Now I am asking something harder:

Who do I want to be?

Who am I when the people, roles  and expectations that once defined me no longer do? Who might I become if nothing is preventing me from becoming her except myself?