Smith's work has focused on various aspects of the body-- the internal, external, and everything in between-- in a dizzying array of two-and three dimensional media, from bronze to terra-cotta to cast glass. Printmaking becomes her metaphor for skin and print techniques become profoundly varied ways of exploring the topography and penetrating the surface of the skin. In the years that Smith has been exhibiting her sculpture, she has explored the body from inside out, not only to gain self-knowledge but to steal back the body from the media and the bureaucrats and restore it as the site of personal, spiritual, and biological experience. She wishes the viewer to know and share the responsibilities of the body's functioning, its joys and its pains.