"I crop the figures deliberately. By obscuring the identity of the woman, as well as her feelings and thoughts, she retains the ultimate power of disclosure. I like to focus on the action or task, often as a metaphor, and title each piece with a phrase, always loaded with a double meaning. The series plays with the reductionism and tension between sexuality and female identity. My themes focus on emotional presence, attachment, perception, cultural assumptions, constraints, connection, voice, and personal power. These are universal elements of human experience and have relevance even as the particulars of context shift over time."                                                                                                                              - Leslie Graff