The Awareness, Holding In, and Quietly, Quietly are part of an ongoing series of works that feature my painted figure merging with woven atmosphere. These large-scale weavings begin with altered photographic images of my body, which are painted onto the threads of my warp. The cloth is then woven, embedding the figure within the structure. I magnify form and gesture in my figures by stripping color and detail from the original images. This, along with the exaggerated scale of the works, reflects an internal reality and the depth of emotional states made visible and physical. The familiar, yet strange and seductive surface of this cloth environment draws the viewer close. Through this surface I entice them to enter, and perhaps recognize, the vastness or vulnerability of the mental space I project.