Impulses of memories are familiar and idealized, often
shaped by one’s desires, and infused with a sense of loss. My paintings and
temporal installations use topography as a language to
recreate this sense of nostalgia and wonder through emotions, memories, and
sensory experiences associated with nature. Exploring the reciprocal relationship between
environment and inhabitant, my work points to ways in which my surroundings
have shaped me, and I in turn, leave my mark on them. Ephemerality and the
passage of time are intrinsic to my material choice and process. Exploring the
need to memorialize fleeting moments, I signify time through repetitive
mark-making; a stroke of a palette knife or the pouring of a mound. My
photographic practice references the tension caused by detachment and loss not
only from a particular place but also a longing for the tangible in a world
increasingly dominated by images.
Emphasizing the process of making, I use my hands to transform
the banal; constructing, sculpting, pouring and rubbing. Through my labor,
materials generally considered trivial are made precious. Camp sensibilities
inform my work blurring the boundaries between nature and artifice, as well as
art and craft traditions, through embellished surfaces
that encourage haptic communication between viewer and
viewed. An awareness of space and sensitivity to
surface requires the audience to physically and emotionally negotiate their
relationship to material and form, rekindling personal connection to the
work itself and by extension, the landscape.
