Artist Statement
 

My work investigates the emotional identities of humans as fragments of a larger ecosphere, collectively experiencing an existential change of earth systems.  As we contemplate the overwhelming burden of infinite natural things we do not fully grasp as a human race, we can also delight in its impossible beauty. Humanity’s destruction of land turns us inwards to self-immolation.

 

My primary materials are gouache and watermedia on paper. Works are informed by natural phenomena, mathematical sequences, traditional ornamental patterns, and the Transcendental Art Movement.  I use bold colors to invoke an emotional response, surreal compositions and allover pattern to put the viewer into a state of transfixation.  

 

Current work is focused on bringing botanical life, weather, and land into optic geometric pattern work to send messages of urgency and observations of our relationship with the natural world, as we collectively grieve and celebrate its existence together.