I have long been fascinated by the myth of Persephone, the daughter who descends into the Underworld to care for the dead. She tends the dead for half of the year and emerges in the spring again to be reunited with her mother, Demeter.

Persephone must stay in the Underworld for 5 months having eaten 5 pomegranate seeds. According to the myth, pomegranate is the food of the dead. I have cast pomegranates and hands holding them in plaster. They are then painted with encaustics.

The work has branched out into another "underworld"—the interior reproductive anatomy of women. The life cycle, birth and death are primary themes of the myth and are intertwined in the female anatomy imagery.

I use old linens and cast-off household fabrics as my starting place. I see the fabric as the perfect vehicle for this work as fabric has a very intimate connection to the body: washing, wiping, sleeping on, wearing. Cloth holds physical evidence of our existence.