'Don't touch'. My work is about secrets, the things I can't or wont otherwise express. I conceal objects and narratives of unspeakable origin beneath a lacework of plasticene or under a canopy of drapery or curls. These works are both drawing and sculpture, playing on the edge between repugnant and the exquisite, the worthless and the covetable. These works describe the uneasy tension between attraction and restraint and reveal, through a very personal symbolism, the quietly beautiful and erotic nature of obsession.
Beth Norling, artist statement, 2009
