"There is a life to form: at once mutable, at once constant, insistent and forever repeatable.“Once upon a time” is the evocation, the start of a story begun somewhere.  When marked by visual device it moves from what is known or from what is unknown. There are figures that hold their ground; others uncover and ease toward a kind of transfiguration and pictures are made. Time will hold still or move on. Like x - y coordinates, layers race to hold meaning, or give up secrets. They can emit symbols, again mutable in pace and evolution. The work is always consequential, the amalgam of meaning."

Shelley Thorstensen  4.2011