My larger then life cutouts sometimes floating upside-down or leaping through the air attempt to express the female as exuberant, dynamic, brimming with life force. Through a female landscape of pattern, color and texture, I wish to convey issues of sexuality, mythology, fashion and exhibitionism. As I paint the patterns over the form and they begin to emerge I imagine the figure turned inside out revealing the spiritual underpinnings. Although I have worked for most of my life with a rectangular format these new works require a physicality just to maneuver and paint the shape that is both challenging and exhilarating.