I enjoy looking at life as though I am looking through a kaleidoscope of the familiar and the new. Everything is in constant flux. A change in position, theory, or attitude can, in the blink of an eyelid, magically change 'old' ideas without discarding them. The contrast between change and stability, animate and inanimate, brings about a continuing organic and spiritual flux.

I learn new things through personal introspection and communication with others. The old and the new interlace my works, layering knowledge and ignorance, wisdom and foolishness, power and helplessness, meanness and extravagance, muteness and boldness. I explore and blend these layers by turning the kaleidoscope and see what it presents to me.

Rookeya Gardee, 2002