Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist (science, social practice, ecopsychology, and history) whose work explores how human beings interact with, respond to, and alter their natural environment. My studio practice envelops everything from ancient mosses and the smell of rain, to layers of plastic found in the Arctic Circle, to portraits of wild birds and glacial runoff, to letters penned by those experiencing solastalgia on the other side of the world.
With a focus on both the catastrophic changes that are happening globally, as well as the poetic intelligence of ecology, my work plays with perception and awareness. Sometimes, the work can provoke a sense of renewed awe, investigation, and wonder. Other times, it can gently probe the knee-jerk response of consumerism. Often, my work holds these two truths simultaneously. We are in a new Gilded Age, with one truth poised to push the ecological boundaries into utter collapse, and the other poised to crush and crumble humanity’s greed into the loamy soils of future seeds — humble, patient, and deserving.