She works primarily with textiles, creating soft sculptures and wall hangings.
"Your body's like a soft sculpture that some artist meant more as a caricature."
In the bedroom, two soft sculptures of fish are poised above the bed.
From a distance the work looks like soft sculpture, which in a sense it is.
And in 1961, she began to create the distinctive soft sculptures that are probably her most familiar works.
She began experimenting with sewn and stuffed soft sculptures.
"What I do, people call soft sculpture," she said.
Made of a pleated synthetic material, these swoosh and move about the body like soft sculpture.
It is the ultimate in "soft sculpture," to retrieve a phrase from the early 1960's.
She spoke of moving from painting to collage to free-standing soft sculpture.