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"The series of paintings and drawings I've titled 'Light Structures," has developed over the last 20 years.  Where once my work concentrated on the figure in autobiographical studies, I now focus that sense of autobiography within a landscape context.  My work continues to explore questions about how we are acculturated and socialized, and therefore, how we view our landscape as we are trained by society.  I explore an idea that our socialization causes us to view our environment in very conditioned ways, gender and role-playing being significant factors.  Women have traditionally been trained to experience our environment from a limited, or 'bounded,' perspective, ie: from the intimacy of home and garden.  Men, however, have traditionally been encouraged to view the space around them with the panoramic vision of 'manifest destiny.'  In understanding this, I seek to contrast intimate and easily overlooked spaces with vast, deep spaces, creating opposition in and of view."