Add to ORKGIncludes bibliographical references (pages 15-16)Sinister within the Sweet is a tower of pallets embedded with the artworks I created during the course of my studies at California State University, Northridge. The works have been reused or altered, but they still bear attributes of their earlier forms. The illusion of the ???real??? or human-scale space and the meaning of ???home??? sustain my aesthetic and conceptual inquiry. My work examines the underlying resonance of childhood: limitlessness, inventiveness, mystery, imagination, adventure, and possibility. A variety of approaches???including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography????? have enabled me to explore the act of playing that has become an important process in unco...