Her background in oil painting gave way into using other methods of her art. She has said that, "Over the years, I started removing my hand more and removing brushes and all of the proper tools we're trained with as painters. It's been years of finding other ways to look at the process, and other ways to look at and interact with materials." She is often using
sumi ink (made from the soot of pine branches in Japan) In her time at Wave Hill, she also made use of a
root ball, a mass of roots at the base of a plant that has soil surrounding it. She usually works with her canvases on the floor with her working over and on top of them. She has said that, "Working aerially with my images on the floor, I am interested in being inside the image rather than the outside as an easel painter." ==Message==