I view the body as a site of conflict: physical, psychological, and metaphysical. In my 2-D art, I frequently work with medical imaging such as X-rays, CT scans and MRIs because they allow one to see through the skin - to that which is untouchable.

I am currently engaged in collaging images of growth in nature into CT scans of my abdomen. I have chosen my own pelvic "womb" area because this is a space which houses many things. It is the center, the part of the body which carries - whether that be one's torso, one's organs, one's child or one's soul. I therefore felt it an appropriate space to bear these images of growth and mutation.

Heidi I. Nash-Siedlecki is a multi-media artist living and working in New York City. Recent shows include exhibitions at Exit Art, White Columns, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Gen Art, the Buhl Foundation, Jorgensen Gallery, HERE Art, Gallery Taranto, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, the Tunnel (all NYC), the Vale/Gieser Gallery of Contemporary Art in Des Moines, IA and a collaboration with choreographer/ composer Christopher Caines at the Rieman Center for the Performing Arts (Harvard University) and at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (NYC).

Her explorations of representations of the female body in medical imagery have been the subject of a seminar at the Women's Caucus for Art conference in Philadelphia. A graduate of Harvard University and the N.Y.U./I.C.P. Masters program, she completed the Artist in the Marketplace program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the Spring of 1998. Recent awards include a Heathcote Art Foundation grant and residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Also trained in traditional black & white photography, Heidi's photographs of performance events have appeared in numerous national and international publications.