I have been making work for twenty-five years, and for most of them I trusted language to carry it. I approached art the way I'd been taught to write as a lawyer: find the exact word, set it down, be precise. Every piece was in some way about women’s hidden labor. the expectation that we absorb what happens to us, keep it neat, and let nothing spill.

Lately I've been experimenting with starting without a plan. Each piece begins with something I can't control but ends up tidy, almost exacting, because I spend the rest of the work making sense of what chance handed me. What all my work has in common is the negotiation between surfaces that look lovely while hiding the labor it took to make them, and making palatable women's hidden labor that is their subject. 

I was born in Washington, D.C., studied at Duke and Stanford Law School, and have been an attorney, a teacher, a writer, and a mother. I'm not sure any of those were separate jobs.
I live and work in New York City.