Similar to the archaelogical process of uncovering layers of earth and history to better understand the nature of a thing, a woman explores her life by inquiring into the traces, happenings, signs, and signals that occur in and around her as a way to map out her personal terrain, identiying where she marks and is marked by the environments she inhabits, both internal and external.

Gail Alexander's new body of work titled "What Already Exists" is such a personal site of study transmuting color, shape, form, and ephemera into mysterious sensual surfaces that are emotionally exciting combinations of recorded experience reflecting the deep feminine nature as a living breathing process.