STATEMENT OF WORK

I use painting, drawing, collage, and processes of transference and erasure to create energetic abstractions. While much of my work is grounded in observation at some stage (time spent looking at trees, stones, light, etc), there are blurred and tactile moments where the excavation of ghostly forms appear. Foregrounds and backgrounds fluctuate with compositions that challenge depth perception. Pours of paint and crusty stains coagulate, evoking erosion and relief. Hand-built ceramics may punctuate fields of flatness, adding dimension to the rigid support of a wall. 

My recent drawings are graphite rubbings that explore temporary physical and psychological sites through the echoes of histories embedded in object surfaces. These works grapple with ideas of boundaries and containers, and question what delineates the periphery of objects and according to whom. I’m specifically interested in perceptions of time and nonlinear narratives as seen through different ages of childhood. Youthful sensitivities magnify and make raw natural cycles full of loss and change. These drawings morph like the co-mingling of imagination with scientific phenomena. The results are images that are in fact impressions of past forms and moments of focus and play, directly inscribed into the material. This practice culls and compresses disjointed gestures, allowing shapes, digits, and surface variations to become units of measurement and unknowable markers. The result is a materially varied set of transcribed bodily perceptions, grounded in the subject of landscape.