there, two key opportunities availed her. the first was a commission to paint “sunforce” a large mural executed on a campus building. sunforce represents a critical turning point in her technique. due to the massive scale of the mural, her current impasto techniques became impractical and she was forced to adapt to the flat plane of the mural surface. in sunforce, the image suggests a large mass that drops, and continues to drop as though it would continue through the bottom and off the painting. the second, was the opportunity to learn printmaking, lithography and eventually silk screen, a technique conducive to hard-edge shapes.