My work is driven by an intense desire to learn how to look deeper and re-see objects from the natural world. I pull from the shapes of rocks, sticks, seeds, and other natural found objects to create drawings, sculptures, and installations that use a variety of materials and techniques to explore the formal qualities and conceptual possibilities of my source materials. I build shrines to rocks, create immersive installations to contemplate small objects, and tessellate organic forms into abstract drawings in order to re-see them as important and precious.
Partially informed by childhood memories of a wild and vibrant world, and partly informed by climate anxiety, my work aims to assert that value is simply a matter of spending time with something. I use abstraction, play, and slow obsessive processes (painting dots, beading, netting, and linear mark-making) as tools in my drawings and sculptures to re-imagine the object and transform it out of a readily understood context. Perhaps a rock is a rock, but what if we learn to see that object as inherently precious and vibrant in and of itself? Beading a net around a rock both protects and obscures the object. It becomes trapped, temporarily, in my intervention, and also becomes suddenly more visible as an object in our culture. My attempts to find connection to the seemingly mundane or inanimate are attempts to slow down and find the connections between myself as a living breathing body and the world that surrounds me. Grounding and wonder are, I believe, pathways to finding a more graceful way to move with the world and all of its complex parts.