I first began creating artworks incorporating menstrual fluid in 2005, pressing my menstrual vagina to watercolor paper each morning to make a series of monoprints.  My purpose in producing and exhibiting these works was to confront the taboo associated with menstruation, demystify this natural function of the female body, and promote thought-provoking discussion among women & men, artists & non-artists alike.

After exhibiting these pieces, I curated a St. Louis based exhibition, entitled Life Blood Exhibit, which traveled throughout the city and to Cape Girardeau, MO from 2011 - 2012.  I have also continued to explore female reproductive health, with artworks themed around celebrating women’s bodies to addressing health concerns (my own and others’) to the political and social arena (abortion, birth control, the confiscation of tampons at a July 2013 Texas legislative meeting…).

I am currently working on a series of artworks in response to my personal life (the death of my father, my separation and divorce from my husband of almost 12 years, committing to a new life partner, and preparing to move from St. Louis) and political influences (especially the Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case and related discourse).

Although I first strove to detach from my work in order to promote an open forum for discussion, my recent artworks embrace the feminist idea that the personal is political, developing my own iconography to work through life hardship, celebration and change.