STATEMENT OF WORK

I create paintings that explore the entangled ways in which memory, time, and place are interconnected. I start with ink and watercolor to make an assortment of dots, lines, and pools of color. Then, like a cartographer, I label areas — not with real locations, but where the marks and colors evoke feelings, thoughts, and memories. The words often express feelings of Solastalgia —grief or distress for the vanishing wilderness and environmental destruction. The words also evoke the unknowable, the impermanent, and the immensity of time. The marks on my map-paintings are purposefully ambiguous: dots can be birds, rocks, or stars; lines can be roads, rivers, or the passage of time; pools of color can be clouds or lakes or a mysterious presence. Playing with cartographic imagery, I attempt to convey the unmappable, intangible essence existing beneath the more familiar structures of the visible world.