A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
I laugh with the sun, and mist that tries so hard to seduce the mountains.
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now see as the forms within forms in my crocheted wire sculptures.