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I am not at peace with death. I desperately want to be among the living; but my near-death brush with breast cancer metastasized to my liver and forced me to confront death. 

 

In this sculpture I face death head on, not because I want to, or from some heroic stance, but because I have not been given a choice.  Yet, I still strive, for my own sanity, to meet death on my own terms.  If I look it in the eye, can I make peace with it?  I  have stopped running - and there is a bit of freedom in that.

 

Self Portrait with Horse and Skeleton

 

While making this piece, I tacked up pictures by Thomas Hart Benton to my studio wall. The swirling flux and sculptural forms in his work resonate with me; the grass is alive, the clouds are alive; each element has a consciousness about it. Using different points of perspective, the figures look like they belong in different worlds that have intersected, adding to the heightened motion.