This new body of work is old made new again. The continuing interest (perhaps passion is a better word) for objects both found and collected is an arena that I have mined in previous exhibits, such as Categories, Collections, and A Cabinet of Wonder at Women & Their Work, 1999, and Collected Responses with Steve Wiman at O² Gallery in 2003. In all of these exhibits, I expand the accepted realm of taxonomies to include the scientific, the plaything, the detritus of decay, and the strange.

Last summer, I visited The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England. I was magically transported to the world of wunderkammer once again. The Pitt Rivers is a museum of “everything” – objects of value and less value stuffed in vitrines, cabinets, drawers as far as the imagination can wander. Upon my return, I was determined to find a way to make, yet again, my own strange museum of “stuff”. This exhibit is the result – a combination of all my loves … the object, making things (such as boxes), drawing, and painting.