The scenarios I construct emphasize the irony of body-consciousness. Small and heavy women cavort nude in celebratory displays of eating and dressing, challenging our ideals on weight, beauty and sexuality. Playing off Vargas pin-up girls, my dress-up plays on sexuality, celebrating how a woman views herself. My work shows that every woman has import, regardless of her weight or shape.

After exhibiting my photography in museums and galleries, I recently became interested in applying photography to create 3-dimensional photo-sculptural objects. Im now creating objects to make people smile and provoke thought. For me this has the same value as producing a photograph that hangs on the wall.

I let the objects themselves dictate scenarios and I shoot photographs specific to the objects that will use them. In doing so, my photographs take-on greater meaning as part of the object than when standing alone.

I carefully tone my prints with tea and gold to help achieve their dreamlike glow. I also design my own objects and assemblies, and use teams of fabricators, jewelers and carpenters to bring my art-object concepts to life.