Artist Statement

    The tenuous state of our planet compels me to focus on, and take comfort in, the distant future. Nature has always, and will always, find a way – with or without a human presence – and I hope to reflect this by conveying a sense of change, movement, growth and renewal in my work. The images are vague, abstract, colorful and sometimes silly because why not? Who knows what forms life will take next? It’s fun to think about, though this sense of buoyancy belies the implication that we will not be around to see it.

    About a decade ago, I started reading about the vast and elaborate networks of electrical and chemical communication between Earth’s current life forms, particularly that of trees and fungi. Roots and filaments, woven throughout the soil, function similarly to the neurological pathways of the human brain. It is a robust and hidden brain that we stand on; we depend upon it, yet we damage it beyond repair as a matter of course. As a species, we seem to have an extremely hard time imagining and valuing types of intelligence and sentience that differ from our own. Likewise, it is immensely difficult for us to imagine our own sensory experience of the world as being only one of the millions of ways to experience sound, light, movement and color. That is the truth of it, though. We are concurrently both limited and blind to our limitations.

    I think about these things when I’m making art, and how perhaps the more hidden and subtle life forms will have the last laugh. I aim to infuse my work with the vibrations and joy of a wild and unbound future where this is possible and I find this is a sweet place for me to dwell for a bit, when I can.