"When you look at Mary's work, you know that she permitted herself to go inside the pain of the suffering, to know a mother's grief, a child's terror, a community's grief. You know that she went to those dark places in order to tell us, to teach us, to bring us with her into the depths of that reality. But perhaps, without her realizing it, she also provided herslf as our guide, a guide of compassion and love, who represents those images with tenderness and respect and humanity. She tells us with her art what she told us with her person."
—Josey Fisher, Professor, Gratz College