Earlier installations explored issues of class, race and gender. The concept of "war" was used as a point of intersection between ideology and physical experience; where traditional gender roles such as male aggression or female passivity become most evident and therefore can be exposed as pure myth. In many instances these stereotypes actually deny lived experiences. "Female passivity" can be exposed, for example, during World War II when women maintained and upheld many different parts of the economic structure in the US. A cultural redefining of traditional roles occurred when female workers were aggressively pushed back into the domestic sphere at the end of the war, enabling the returning veteran to find work. By appropriating images over several different wartime periods and through several different forms of popular media I reference the cyclical nature of this history and a continuation of these social stereotypes.

Another body of work directly pointed out discrepancies in our governing and judicial systems. This work explored the distance between visionary ideology and lived experience by directly addressing decisions made by the Supreme Court. A video image of moving clouds (the symbolic representation for a utopian ideology) was audibly layered with actual recordings of landmark cases heard before the Supreme Court during the 1960s-70s. Monumental images of the current Supreme Court Justices hung on the walls.

A recent trip to Australia has caused my work to move in a somewhat different direction. Using the journals of early explorers these installation pieces are addressing issues associated with colonization, classification and the destructive use of language.