Many years ago, when I first learned to weave in Zagreb, Croatia (former Yugoslavia where I lived for 13 years), I spent many hours with a camera and a macro lens, photographing intimate details of nature. Of particular interest were the subtle colors of algae growing on a rock, the structural complexity of tree bark, the sensual texture of peeling paint, or the interior form of a flower. This primal response to color and texture and shape in nature found expression in the surface and imagery of my tapestries.

      Since returning from Croatia in 1983, I have completed an MFA in Fiber, taught college for ten years, lived in India, traveled to Indonesia, Central and South America and Africa, gone through a quilting phase, a hard-edge geometric phase, a fiber sculpture phase, and a screen-printing phase.....all to end up where I started.... weaving tapestries as a personal means of expression.

      The exploration never ends, however. No longer toting a camera to dissect my external landscape, I focus now on the interior life in search of those rare, quintessential moments of awareness when I am one with all that is. Because each tapestry takes approximately 200 hours to complete, the arduous process of weaving allows me the time to move between both the tangible and intangible worlds.

      Neither I nor the seminal 5" x 7" pastel sketch of the tapestry attached to my loom are the same from the beginning to the end of this ongoing process---something changes from day to day, week to week, month to month. In those moments of quiet reflection, I feel transformed and uplifted.