My work has been described as "mythological realism". It can be called "realist" in the sense that figures and forms are at least partially recognizable. However these forms inhabit a different space and time, a dream-world where the law of gravity is replaced by the laws of the unconscious.

I depict transformations from human to bird, from arm to wing, from male to female, from larva to dragonfly, from dream to knowledge. For years I have immersed myself in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and through his stories I explore moments of transformation itself, moments of chaos when all is in flux and new forms are born. This work is about the processes of change in all of us. We take a leap, grow wings, escape one life, emerge into a new self.

For my most recent mixed media paintings and drawings, exhibited as 'MIRAR/MIRROR: An Exchange of Gazes' (Oct-Nov 2008, at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) I spent a year researching indigenous myths of Venezuela, discovering stories that paralleled those of the ancient Greeks. The central themes of these stories: - the chaos and dangerous undifferentiation symbolized by doubling and reflection, the power of the gaze, the magic of the shapeshifter who eludes the eye, the possibility of rebirth through water, - are behind the title 'Mirar/Mirror'. I also discovered a parallel bestiary of animal spirits that slither, swim and storm through these canvases.

In my previous exhibition, 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Centaurs and other Losers', at Studio Gallery Feb 2008) my interpretations of Ovid acquired a new political edge. 'Collateral Damage' is centered around the story of Caenis: a tale of persecution, destruction of the landscape, militaristic hubris, gender confusion and above all the desolation and waste of war.

"In Sea Changes, Micheline Klagsbrun, known for her exploration of Greek mythology, focuses on the process of transformation itself. Her work recalls William Blake in the intensity of its palette and the poetic, richly metaphoric, imagery. Klagsbrun makes the myths her own, creating a personal cosmology in which all boundaries, - human, animal, vegetable, mineral, - are fluid."