About

I create painted relief sculptures that explore the natural world through fantasy and play in the zone between abstraction and representation.

My process is intuitive and narrative. I merge forms from my environment to create a kind of visual chaos. Within this, I forage for new images, telling myself stories about what I see and letting those fictions guide the work. I also play with the interaction of relief and painting to manipulate the viewer’s perception of space, light, surface, and shadow. They are forced to walk around the reliefs to determine illusion from reality and find hidden details, adding a performative element to the work.

In my current practice, my exploration forks in two directions: outward and inward. In Ruminations, I use plant life to consider deep time, overarching cycles of growth and decay, and future wildernesses. In Holobionts (in progress), I blend plants with wildlife to create figure-like forms that explore human animality and ecological empathy.

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