In 1999, after painting abstractly for twenty years, I began to create assemblages in boxes. My themes center around how we orient ourselves in the world and in the universe, how diverse elements coalesce in a single moment, the cyclical nature of our lives and how we codify the information we integrate by written language, musical notation, charts, graphs and visual symbols.

In scrutinizing the multiple ways in which we order and position our lives I can examine questions about what informs us about our physical and spiritual location. Each box can contain a dance of timing and opportunity, a convergence of elements in a single moment. Any particular moment becomes a collision of timing and serendipity. How we measure these moments with music, clocks, compasses, hourglasses, and the movement of the sun, earth, stars and tides, are the questions posed in my cases.

Much of my thinking has been based around the chaos theory and on the years my husband and I spent focused on navigation when we were sailing off the east coast.Because serendipity plays such a large part in the chaos theory, I find myself using pieces that portray chance and luck such as dice, dominoes, chess, checker pieces and other game devices.

This spring I had a revelation. With so much of my attention devoted to time and timing, it was a logical progression for me to start working in clockcases that amplify the time nexus issue and provide a stronger visual direction to pursue.