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.
Advisor: Laurel Sparks
Mentor: Baker Overstreet
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