Hourglasses 2007
Life Phase 1: Youth with water

Life Phase 2: Reproductive Age with milk

Life Phase 3: Elder with crushed egg shell

My grandparents had an hourglass in their house that I used to stare into as the grains fell, over and over.  The attraction to the workings of gravity and the elegant form of the glass captivated me.  Multiple profound 8-year old thoughts came and went until the end was near then all attention was on the thrill of that one eerie moment of time stopping.

Altering the traditional hourglass into a double uterine form, my thoughts are directed to biology and my concept of time shifts to a different speed.  Its contents take on new metaphors, different from those I imagined as a child.  The eerie moment that once thrilled me now haunts me as the last grain drops.

-Kirkland Art Center Gallery, Kirkland, WA