I am interested in the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues impacting the woundedness of the world today. 

Dispirited by the global pain of recent years, I find solace in nature, hiking ancient woods with my family or biking regional trails near my home, reconnecting to the earth, to humanity, and to myself. These experiences continue to inspire my art through painting, photography, and video.

The physical line in my art represents the lines that divide us from each other and the earth, and become a place where both separation and togetherness can be seen and mapped on the surface. 

Evoking a map, "Relief Map" uses line to create tension between color and shape. Relief happens in moments where blending occurs. The lines invite the viewer to notice separateness and imagine what the art (a world) might look like without it.

"River Delta From The Exosphere" explores perspective and identity. Does this distant view connect or disconnect me to my experience of the world? The abstract becomes tangible through the mark-making, in both its deliberate and spontaneous movement and texture. 

"Monoculture Surrounds" explores our broken relationship with and responsibility to the land. It highlights the human-imposed order that runs against nature's wildness and touches on themes of ecological restoration, reparations, and world healing.

"Wounded Waters" depicts the top layer of a lake as it is freezing. The mosaic recalls ages of water coming together, symbolic of healing generational trauma. Its grainy texture intensifies the emotional experience. This photograph is of a lake near my home.

"Lichen, Moss, Rust & Sun On Iron" explores themes of permanence and being present. What is seen? A sunset, a wildfire, a harmonious expression of elements that could only exist at a certain time under certain conditions? What is lost and what remains from one day to the next?  

"Poem" shows borer lines in wood. To me it feels like the pulse of a poem playing with order and randomness. Or as in asemic writing, a script without semantic meaning but the freedom of a universal language.