On weekends, when not working outside, I remember my father carving beautiful madonnas out of wood. And my mother upstairs in a room dedicated to her art, creating beautiful flower and sculptural arrangements. She was always saying “find the beauty others don’t see.”

For many years I worked at the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. My work was designing public spaces, mostly playgrounds, in different parts of Brooklyn. I also made sculptures, many for the children as spray showers or animals to climb upon and a few with special meaning in those wonderfully diverse communities. It was the perfect place for me and I was awarded a NYC Art Commission Award for Public Art in 1997 for my animals at play sculptures for a playground in Staten Island. While there, I also earned my MFA in interdisciplinary art at a wonderful low residency program at Goddard College. I am forever thankful for the encouragement I received from Parks for the opportunity to serve the community.

My personal sculptures often express personal relationships in an imagined world creating them in sometimes unusual configurations. Each had special meaning in a particular moment in my life. My medium of choice is wax. I love its responsiveness to the warmth of human touch, its strength and it’s lineage to ancient sculpture.

The Apology Sculptures are associated with the Apology To Loneliness project and are a culmination of a personal struggle to embrace my loneliness and find within that human condition beauty, love and meaning after making an apology. Sculptures from the project have been included in two NYC shows and one in Seattle during 2023.