My works were inspired by the Black women quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, made famous when they were "discovered" and declared to be artists by a gallery owner.  My patchworks of sewn fabric scraps and remnants of worn clothing, undergo the rigors of some of the applied artistic principles used and taught by Hans Hofmann and others.  Thus, the sewn support, the product of “women’s work,” is painted over, obliterated by layers of the male, intellectualized process of making post-modernist art.  The resulting amalgamation of “primitive” with “fine” art repeats the questions: What makes a thing a workof Art and who has the authority to say so?