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(From the exhibition catalogue for "Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places" 2006) LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES is a yearlong record of experience, observation, and resignation in the face of what is ultimately a journey of solitude. The human animal is a social creature, finding safety in numbers and seeking comfort in the understanding proffered by others. In an age of growing conflict, isolation, and loneliness, these connections seem increasingly rare, and the challenge to fill the void ever greater. Looking For Love is a cathartic preamble to the realization that we are ultimately born alone and must die as such, and our task is to transcend this situation. In this exhibition the subjects are all female or reasonable facsimiles thereof, and are mainly social pariahs. The departure point of the show is the Femme Fatale, both despised and admired for the very same reasons, depending on the beholders point of view. This relativity of perception, subject to the philosophical vagaries of the time, earmarks the slippery reality of connectedness, and transcends the very notion of solitude itself, which is ultimately as illusory as the company we keep. Is this abstraction of being unsettling or reassuring? In looking beyond the interface of the physical world into the universal absolute, one would hope that there is a whole no longer made up of disparate parts as we know it. Like billions of beads of mercury coalescing together, it is through the tilt and pitch of life’s experience that we may eventually come to understand our true connection.