My interdisciplinary visual art practice is centered around fostering ecological literacy, a sense of place, and kinship with the land. I gravitate towards research-based artist book forms and other poetic syntheses of images and text. Bound or unbound, there is always a story—some kind of narrative thread, pattern, or problem across time and space that I feel called to understand and illustrate in visceral, intimate ways.
Walking and hiking is integral to my practice and my projects are often germinated outdoors by photographing and sketching as I go. I also collaborate with trees and their offerings to make art on the land. The work evolves both on and off screen at home as I explore more with paper engineering, digitized sketches and textures, hand-dyed textiles, fused plastic bags, and other found materials.
Through my work, I reckon with injustice and resist entropy, despair, and human exceptionalism. I seek truth and embrace grief. And with an abiding reverence for the beauty of Life as a complex whole, I strive to offer spaces for critical thinking, conversation, and solace in these challenging times.
Studio Accessibility
back yard entrance, two shallow steps