Inspired by traditional crochet crinoline ladies, this is a pared-down version of the traditional emblem of dainty femininity. The female figure is fixed as the immobile center of the doily "skirt", but she is only a bare torso integrated into a plinth. She becomes an immutable part of the decoration of the home.

An urban intervention in the form of a doily sited in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, Ca.

These super-sized red doilies are nailed to the wall partially covering peephole drawings of my home.

An edging is a decorative embellishment sewn onto clothing or household linens which signifies the decorative completion of an object. In this work the edging itself is never completed, embodying contradiction.

Two crochet blankets, each with a prayer, are suspended from the ceiling of the gallery to form a passage. The cream blanket has a child's prayer for bedtime and the black blanket has a passage from a funeral rite that likens death to sleep.

Installation view from Gallery La Mesa, 2008

Text reads: "In the midst of life we are in death"