The performance series represented an exploration of feminine rights of passage through live movement, sculptural costumes and film sequences.
    Four material elements were used as metaphors for each season:

glass  -- summer --  the dress of birth
leaves  -- fall --  the dress of childhood and exploration
sticks  -- winter --  the dress of adolescence and making choices
stones  -- spring --  the dress of maturity and assurance

The Dress of Leaves was a cloth structure large enough for me to climb up inside. It was used as a projection screen onto which the film images played. The girl character wore a square dance dress with cowboy boots and carried a keepsake box (lunch box) filled with 'treasures.'