STATEMENT OF WORK

ARTIST STATEMENT

Inhabiting a variety of media – including sculpture, installation, video, photography, and printmedia – my practice investigates and seeks to parse the fused and knotted qualities of the current global environmental crisis as examined through objects, the landscape, and the relationships between bodies and architectures. My practice is a philosophical rumination comprised of cross-disciplinary work equally motivated by research and experimentation and uses material as a poetic language - found objects as words and images as a document. Using sometimes insubstantial materials to depict what seems simultaneously indestructible and delicate, my work, explores the tension between permanence and transience, growth and decay. 

My work examines how art, ecology, science, and culture intersect to create multi-layered, multi-directional assemblages. Often involving a dialog on contemporary Ecological discourse and new materialisms, my work and research focus on the spatial, temporal, and geomorphic implications of objects and landscapes and processes inherent to human activity. Within the spatial time-scales of prehistory, modernity, and ages of cognitive, agricultural, industrial, atomic, and technological revolution, my work draws from objects, ancient landscapes, and speculative futures to present an origin-based examination, asking essential questions about how the functions of objects and space inform, mirror, and tend to the human condition and, more broadly, conditions of being. 

Recently my work has been motivated by trying to decipher the global environmental crisis as seen through objects, forest, and mountain landscapes. Taking cues from Ecological Art movements of the 1960s and ’70s, contemporary Ecofeminist discourse, and humanities-based ecological studies, I work to illuminate the urgency of preserving the natural world as well as the parameters of our understandings of time, space, wilderness, and ecology. Through examining the history of how humans have shaped and are shaping the environment, I am interested in the temporal, corporeal, and spatial notions of history, time, and site and what they may illuminate about the present. My work is centralized on the inquiry; How do we create space and, in this process, affect nature? What is the shape of the exchange that takes place between the environment and human activity? What are the terms and histories of these relationships, and how can we better create space for each other?