My experience of place is deeply personal. It is constructed through
dialogue — what a place discloses to me, what draws me in:
an unlikely meeting of colors
spaces and shapes that recur unexpectedly
patterns formed by growth and erosion
My work reflects my desire to attend to and decode my dialogue with place, particularly with the natural world. The landscape of the natural environment is full of opportunities for decoding – even the smallest, most humble elements hold vast potential
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My experience of place is deeply personal. It is constructed through
dialogue — what a place discloses to me, what draws me in:
an unlikely meeting of colors
spaces and shapes that recur unexpectedly
patterns formed by growth and erosion
My work reflects my desire to attend to and decode my dialogue with place, particularly with the natural world. The landscape of the natural environment is full of opportunities for decoding – even the smallest, most humble elements hold vast potential for investigation. I consider my work to be a visual record of an unscripted dialogue between the painted page and the natural world.
My work is informed by Robert Smithson’s Provisional Theory of Non-Sites (1968) “The Non-Site (an indoor earthwork) is a three dimensional logical picture that is abstract, yet it represents an actual site. It is by this dimensional metaphor that one site can represent another site which does not resemble it – this is The Non-Site.”
I construct boxes in which I arrange found objects to represent my experience of specific natural and human-made environments. Each box is accompanied by artworks that reference aspects of the local environment that draw me in.
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