The krohn series is about reclaiming power.  About letting go of helplessness, shame or submission and coming into the healing and safety that are our birthright as human beings.  It is about coming into a new balance and the possibility of being courageous and unstoppable in fully sharing ourselves and our love with the world.

Around the time these ideas were beginning to come I visited Peru, where I saw mummies and other primitive images that kept returning to me within the work.  I was also on the island of Galiano , BC, where another ancient culture, that of Northwest Native Americans, had created sacred meeting places in the old rainforests, dramatic cliffs and seascapes.

My approach with the work was to meditate and allow the strong emotions and timeless stories from these places emerge, then to articulate them in natural and imagined forms.  The feelings did not lend themselves to a finished surface – in fact this seemed offensive to their rawness.  Without thinking I began using the pastels in a rough, new way.  On Galiano I had photographed natural allusions to power and sexuality, which seemed to pair up and communicate with the pastel series. 

The pieces found their own evolution, as if many stories became one story of transformation; of finding a way through, or maybe back, to the completeness of the universe with us.