where she lives.  Formally, she is a representative abstract artist: all her images start with a specific reference drawn from the natural world based on its compositional potential, or because of her psychological, intellectual, or philosophical attachment to it.  The idea is then stripped down to its general core and surface through abstraction and connotations with the use of bright colors, strong values, and flattened, decorative spaces that recall the qualities of the Symbolist, Aesthetic, and Art Nouveau movements.  The resulting intensions will engage viewers in a meditative exercise and lead them towards their own conclusions about her art.  Although she has a personal interpretation, she shuns an official interpretation because her goal is not to create didactic discourse, but to encourage multifaceted, if even contradictory narratives of her images.  Her work exists in a constant state of conjoined meanings, and becomes a symbol of the thread that connects the differing narratives.  It is detached, though not forgotten, from her original intent.