Spider silk — the stuff spiders spin their web with — is five times as strong as an equal amount of steel.

After reading David Abrams’ The Spell of the Sensuous, I changed the title of one of my paintings from Tree Goddess to Tree Woman.

In 1971, I worked as assistant costumer to Enrico Sabbatini on the award-winning film Sacco and Vanzetti.

Life in the Italian cinema was a great adventure for a twenty-something American female costume designer.

Within each living cell are various structures that are the containers, like the pots in which flowers grow, or the pods that hold seeds.

Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945), founder of the biosphere concept, saw living matter as the greatest of all geological forces. In this painting, photosynthesizing red and green bacteria, algae, and plants are transforming the sun’s energy, (shown as photons) into a “green fire.”

Three of my dioramas are in the Artist Books Exhibit at Illahe Studios and Gallery in Ashland, OR through April 2011. Each “page” is a self-portrait that transcends the personal story through its archetypal imagery.

"Ode to the Eurkaryote" depicts an imaginary paradise (para + deisos in ancient Persian, meaning "enclosed garden") inhabited by fish and lizards and birds. “Paradise” also came to mean a place of supreme beauty.

How long have artists been depicting dancers? As far back as the Stone Age, about 20,000 years ago.

In "Dancing Scissors" I have used scissors rather than brushes or pencils or pens to create the dancers.

The series “Dancing Brush” was born when I took an easel and paper, brush and ink to the Ecstatic Dance gatherings that took place every Sunday morning in Ashland.

"Miracle of Connecting" is the name of an exhibition of paintings by my husband and myself at Gallery DeForest, in Ashland, Oregon, November 2-28, 2005.

I began to paint imaginary dancers in 1999, as a simple expression of joy. Women dancing are women of action.

Life forms proliferate inside the Blue Cocoon. A pod becomes a womb for humans and replicates itself into a fractal network.