"Collective and personal memory are at the heart of the work of Kim Turos, the artist and landscape architect known for sculpture and site-specific installations. Turos' investigations have led her to focus on the increasingly delicate symbiosis of nature and society. Many of her works deal with the mutual forces of natural and man-made environments. With 'Kitchen-aid' Turos worked magic out of a natural disaster of immense proportions - the East Bay firestorm of 1991 that destroyed 2,475 houses and apartment buildings in less that twelve hours. Turos' own house on Grandview Drive was close to the epicenter of the blaze...One of the few relics that she pulled from the ashes was her dishwasher, which along with it's contents, had partially melted, turning an ordinary appliance into a biomorphic 'blobject'...As in much of her work, Turos preserves the wonder of nature's creation while seamlessly augmenting it with her own hand."

   Susan Landauer from The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture