Conceptually as well as visually  the sculptures are inspired by my interest in the evolution of pictographs and ideographs into the modern alphabet. To build these sculptural wall pieces I reconfigure found objects and then bind them together with painted waxed linen thread. The work is fabricated from wooden cast-offs such a scythe handles called snaths, parts from a shoe factory rack, cello pegs, canes, glass eyes and weaving shuttles.  The sculptures project a hands width from the wall cast shadows on the wall above and below.

Writing about The Poetry of Objects in the St. Louis Beacon Ivy Cooper observes,” … Jane Birdsall-Lander has developed a body of elusive, elegant sculptures born of the correlations between bodies, built structures and written symbols.”