These sculptures integrate hand-built ceramic, which is the primary medium, with wood, fresh water pearls, crystal beads, and semi-precious stones. Surfaces are applied with gold leaf and painted with oil. Sculptures are made complete with secret compartments which serve as hiding places for multiple and often times personal meanings. My recent work is based on narratives drawn from personal and historical events that are overlapped with subconscious images. The figures are like actors on a stage, enigmatic yet tense while being enveloped or encrusted within layers of overgrowth concealing a world within.