Warrior Angel figure armored ironically in stereotypical domestic "home & hearth" found objects. This female warrior's legs end at ankles and her feet are replaced by rusty wheels which are sunken into concrete symbolizing her forward progress in society as being impeded by society itself. This piece was my reaction to Roe v Wade being reversed and she has various vintage kitchen gadgets used as armor as well as fireplace screen as her skirt and in the area where her reproductive organs lie, I used an egg slicer, a vintage coin changer, and a hasp with a padlock. 

Her hair is represented by chain and her wings which I use in place of arms (symbolizing disability to make decisions)  are railroad tracks. I create my own head (machine works for inside) and attach to a highly manipulated mannequin on which I attach my found objects. 

This piece references what I consider a non-romanticized version of "how the west was won" in that the horse is static and rusted and stands tiredly on a desolate piece of sparse dry land represented by rusted brown and embellished with found objects such as railroad tracks ( a play on "iron horse") and agricultural or metal items that add to the narrative. I find a toy horse, remove the middle and replace with a machinery filled caged torso that refers to "horse power". I have replaced the plasticity of the former mane and tail with chains that are bike and/or window sash chain that I also rust with muriatic acid. I carefully prep the toy horse before painting with reactive metal iron paint that after having an activator turns into real rust and not a faux finish. I do this to the wooden base as well and this reactive paint continues to rust an affect the metals that touch it and I like this aging process. I typically add machine parts from deconstructed "obsolete" machinery like adding machines and typewriters as a nod to both repurposing things that only can be in landfills but also to my being a late career assemblage artist. 

Fashioned from a variety of naturally white found objects or those I whitewashed this swan is great example of pareidolia at play. This is a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns or images in random or vague stimuli. It's a type of apophenia, which is the human tendency to find patterns in random information and in this case it's recorders, tongs, dice and dominos and salad spoons or railroad tracks. A rocking chair arm becomes the graceful neck and is twined with surveyors tape. The fanned tailfeathers are a carpenters ruler.