Deborah Benioff Friedman is an artist and retired veterinarian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is self-taught and has taken workshops in many disciplines including encaustic, drawing, color theory, joomchi, paper sculpture and wire sculpture. She works with a variety of materials, mostly repurposed, but has a particular affinity for rusty metal and used paper such as teabags, book pages, ledgers, paper bags, and all kinds of envelopes. From these materials she creates abstract compositions, both two- and three-dimensional. The pieces she makes reflect her attachment to objects warmed with the luster of human use.