ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is rooted in memory, memory recall of natural imagery, and a direct response to the landscape that I approach with a sense of wonder, reverence, awe and mystery.
My drawings evoke landscape and geological processes. In my work, I explore the process by which materials settle into place over time, recording the lift, drag, and back-and-forth movement of sediment as waves carry it, never landing in the same position twice. I draw inspiration from observation of rocks, seasonal changes, tidal processes, and temporary and long-term structural shifts in the landscape.
My collages explore how rocks can be reconstructed from the fragmentary material that remains after the processes of erosion and collapse have taken place. Using images of stones that I am unable to keep and travel home with, I build new surfaces from photographic fragments of similar rocks. I imagine what they might look like before they have broken down into smaller pieces, or how they may appear differently after having been worn down over time.
The memories I have of landscapes from different places that I have visited or have looked at in photographs and satellite imagery, and have a strong influence on the associations that I make when I view something for the first time. By navigating space on foot and through drawing, I call upon these associations to make sense of what I encounter in the landscape or on the surface of my paper. I am drawing focus on the world that is often neglected around us. Instead of running away from the elements, my drawings attempt to draw one’s attention to them and to look for commonalities from personal experience to make sense of what is presented.