My work is a narrative of one's  journey towards knowledge of the self. As this journey can be painful, I find it necessary to explain it in metaphor, using a rabbit as a persona.  An intuitive process; I often don’t realize what story I am telling until I lay pencil to paper or brush to canvas. Sometimes this story will be told by “Rabbit,” who looks much like a real rabbit, other times by “Fluffy, “ a stuffed rabbit who is often in a state of disrepair. As the story unfolds, raw emotion comes out, first in the color and texture of the background, next in the relation of the rabbit to that space.  The tilt of her head, the look in her eye, the position of her body are all clues to this narrative.  Rope, scissors, needles, thread, eggs, dogs, cats, and birds often join the rabbit in these compositions, symbols of the roadblocks, mentors and friends helping or hindering her on this complex journey through life.