I revel in the awareness that the world is a complex, compelling, stunning place. The closer I look, the richer are the rewards. This complexity often presents as contradictory and confusing, which has led me to make partial sense of my navigation through experiences and thoughts by looking, searching, collecting, pondering and devising principles of order that vary from project to project. Over the decades of working in the studio, I've adopted many modes of working; have developed facility with a variety of methods and material. My early days of following the impulse to become a visual artist were rooted in two-dimensions. I floundered there until I acknowledged that I am more comfortable and facile with the manipulation of and creation of objects. Regardless of the materials used, or their level of interactivity, exploring connections by linking and layering ideas and objects is the basis for my studio work. My work has been included in dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States, and occasionally in other countries (Austria, Canada). http://www.aliciabailey.com/about.html