I’m a saver of things -- parts and scraps of my old destroyed artwork, remnants of the past.  The impulse to mine my own history, to revisit earlier times in my creative practice and life, is an ongoing component of my practice.

The units of “Fragments” became what they are over time. At their core are the shattered remains of pottery, saved shards of large ceramic vessels that defined my practice long ago. Experiments with wire to mimic and respond to a shard’s configuration created structure around the clay remnants, expanding ideas and inventing new, quirky objects. White paper pulp, made of mixed papers from a long teaching career, covers each unit, obscuring what’s left of the art. This personal archaeology of memory, content, and ideas destroyed, saved, and recycled--these ethereal, obscured, altered forms--feels akin to the misty thought processes of our brains.