Carrie Buck was used as a weapon to push Eugenics legislation in the 1920s. She was used as a pawn in a movement that created fifty years of forcibly sterilization in America. So many things happen in our lives that we have very little control over. Carrie Buck was denied the fundamental right to choose. She was denied dignity. The foundation of freedom is Dignity. When you are denied this basic right to make decisions about your body you are denied dignity. A life without dignity will never be free.
	When America runs out of oil, how will we get to the Suburbs? Will the whole country become a wasteland like Arabie in New Orleans. The company that built the 1st Suburban neighborhood, Levittown is now bankrupt, Was building Levittown in New York worth it? What happens to the house wife, does she disintegrate like the ready made frozen dinner packages in a landfull of mini vans? What happens to the Soccer mom, will Madame Bovary self destruct?
	Experimental Video collaboration with my mother, Madeleine Neske. Family stories of Katrina change and dissolve as they are retold. Under enough pressure our past, future and present washes away in the water.
	Barnacle Betty is an exploration of self through multiple channels and possibilities.