Soft Objects
When I first began making mounts for museums I had to make a form from felt to hold an ancient artifact. When making the felt form, I had an insight toward the the type of making that was going on in my studio.
I had to this point been drawing mostly figural narrative scenes. These felt forms allowed a kind of abstraction of the figure. All of the soft forms have a figural reference—whether a remnant of cloth, or an actual figurative reference, for instance an arm or torso. Since they are soft and made of doll-making materials, they had that inherent abstraction of dollness.