“Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned with each other’s welfare...., we need to do something meaningful, something directed seriously, towards the welfare of humanity as a whole.”    – Dalai Lama


My work centers on mothers and children, women and girls—relationships shaped by care, vulnerability, and resilience. Across painting and ceramics, I explore how these bonds are lived privately and experienced politically, within domestic spaces and broader social histories.
 
In the early 1980s, I painted dark, psychologically charged images of domestic life. In the 1990s through the early 2000s, color and craft became central, moving from large-scale paintings of mothers and children to portraits of baseball gloves—objects marked by touch, memory, and use.
 
Clay transformed my practice. For the next twenty years, ceramics became my primary medium, culminating in The Chibok Project: 276 small ceramic figures honoring the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Nigeria. The work functions as both memorial and protest, translating maternal concern into collective witness.
 
Since 2023, I have worked in painting and clay simultaneously, returning to mother–child relationships with renewed urgency. My practice as an artist is inseparable from my work as an arts educator and activist; together, they form a commitment to care, visibility, and social responsibility.




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