Maple Tree Series

These sculptures were inspired by the Maple Tree abolitionist movement in the late 18th century in New York and Holland. Dutch colonist, Native Americans and free indentured African servants joined together in protest against slave labor on sugar cane plantations in the West Indies. They took as their symbol the maple tree - a source of sugar without expoiting slave labor. At once, trees and aspects of the human body, these sculptures explore links between trees and human sexuality, between trees and human agency.