Artist Statement

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

— Aldo Leopold

I grew up in Wisconsin where the adults around me read Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson and Edward Abbey; being an environmentalist was an early inheritance. Later, majoring in biology and journalism, I planned to write about science and nature, but I learned that only through visual art can I describe the patterns and complexities I see. 

I like to work in commonplace, most often reclaimed materials, such as cardboard, paper, fabric and found objects to create work that is conceptual and mostly temporary. I love low-tech, historic or domestic methods of making that allow my hands to get maximally involved in the process.

My art is fractal so all of it, no matter how small, fits together into a collective, expanding whole. In the narrow view, my work examines the relationship between people and the natural world, but when all of the pieces fit together, I create a philosophy, a wistful way of seeing, that is informed by history, science, nature and my lived experiences.

You can read more here: PATTERNS.