My paintings reflect my observation of how movement is achieved within confined spaces. As a former modern dancer, having suffered from several injuries, I dealt physically and emotionally with the inability to move expansively. This obstacle has led me to ask, how does one express the desire to move without moving? How does one move large within small spaces? My art can be understood as an attempt to paint movement or, perhaps, move with the paint. There is dance in the content of my paintings and dance in the execution of them. I rely on the viewer's kinesthetic reaction as well as their visual one, for the way in which I paint is part of the content of the painting. Consequently, I am interested in the body as an instrument, as a container, as a source of love and of frustration. I am most curious about the concept of "the body dysmorphic" and ways in which people drastically distort their own perceptions of their bodies, create them as incomplete, heavy, inadequate, imperfect. More succinctly, my own body, its limitations and the emotions associated with that, charge my work.