Statement

Cherry Series

Sugar Bodies

Bathroom Tales:
Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

Jewel Boxes

Private Voices

Good Girl Sculptures

Cupcake Dreams

Dressing Room
Dramas: Pink and
Ruffled

Boss Baby's Slumber
Party

Your New Princess

Soft Voices

Detail of Sugar Nubbins, From the series Bathroom Tales: Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice, ceramic and resin, 22" x 16" x 16", 2005-06

In this body of work, I am connecting the Mother Goose nursery rhyme, "What Are Little Girls", with the objects from the bathroom. The bathroom is a space to focus on beauty and hygiene. It is a space where I learned to both emphasize my femininity and also hide myself by putting on makeup, styling my hair and participating in proper hygiene. All of the elements of the bathroom have a voice in emphasizing and training gender roles. I both participate in these roles and reject them. The nursery rhyme explains that little girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice." This phrase is the inspiration for the elements of desserts and sweets in the bathroom objects.

This series of sculptures is intended to both create objects of fantasy and examine cultural stereotypes.This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.