Cosmic Fish, Primordial Sea

2000
12" x 15"
Dried fish, lead, copper nails, fish hook, false teeth, vintage map, mirror and acrylic paint on found wood

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Visual artist, poet and educator. Artwork is in many private collections nationally.

I facilitate an ongoing, seasonally based workshop, "Women, Spirit and Art", for artists and mystics here in the Bay Area. My intent in my art is to help raise consciousness and to foster healing between our species and the rest of nature, to support efforts to preserve endangered habitat and species on this planet.

My current project, "All Composed Things" which was exhibited in Berkeley in July of 2000, focuses on a current eco-crisis at the Salton Sea in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. I will be installing this show again in the Fall of 2001 at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, California.

My installations include materials which I gather while working on site where an environmental emergency is occurring or where restoration efforts are underway. Some of my materials include dead fish, birds and insects which I "cure" in salt for several months beforehand. I use my art and it uses me as a medium of communication between myself, the natural world and the healing forces, both seen and unseen, in the universe. I believe that artists have a responsibility to be a voice for nature during these critical times.