For the past 25 years, I have consistently worked on the domestic violence project. The initial project began in protest to the war with Iraq. At that time, media outlets were focusing on nightly war casualties as a means of paying tribute to the lives being lost. I decided to begin a tally of my own that would acknowledge the tragedy of lives lost in the daily wars here at home in the United States. I began to research and gather data recorded for domestic violence homicides in the US.

 

In those early searches, I was directed to law enforcement agencies, attorneys, FBI officials, individual state domestic violence coalitions, and so many others who were helpful, generous with their time, and grateful that someone was interested in this ubiquitous and complicated problem. Finding information was not easy. Record keeping practices varied from state to state and many lacked the resources needed to accumulate and collate this information. I was hoping to be able to bring attention to the lives lost in domestic wars here with the same reverence, remembrance, and acknowledgement as any other war. The project has evolved and broadened over the years. I continue to accumulate data on this type of violence but have begun gathering worldwide information.  With the availability of information sharing over the past several years, there are many more resources and organizations that are now involved in working to identify and help those in abusive situations.

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These installations are about secrets and about telling - saying out loud the untold.

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Various versions of this work have been exhibited in the following exibitions.