This is the key to it.
                   This is the key to everything.
                    Preciously.

                                            Anne Sexton, from The Breast, 1969

The zippered leather heads of Nancy Grossman, the 100 Boots of Eleanor Antin, and the UFO series of Herman Mhire all had a strong visual influence on me in the 70's. But it was Judy Chicago's suggestion to "draw yourself as you see yourself, as the world sees you and as you would like to be seen" that generated The Bubble Blower drawings in 1976, about a breast that inverted it’s nipple and became a bubble blower.   

That was the beginning of a personal narrative in art, from drawing into painting and mixed media sculpture using subconscious imagery to create a conscious myth to deal with the pain, the fears, and the absurdity of being human.

I just happen to be female, raised in the deep south (Mississippi), with entangled roots of religion, dark humor, and beauty queens.

                                                                                                          Carol Cole, 2008