MOST OF THE WORLD IS TIME WHEN WE ARE NOT HERE
In discovering the world of contemporary women poets, I connected deeply with the work of Mary Oliver — her imagery and use of color, her strong spare clarity of language, and her connections with the natural world. Her poems became the starting point for a series of my mixed media work on paper which respond to the abundance she observes on her walks through the woods that are both predictable and unexpected, and to her concerns about the enduring cycle of birth, life and death.