Exploring the interconnectedness of life, my practice investigates my personal human experience within the entanglements of a vast ecology of shapes and beings. A web of physical and emotional complexities form a beautiful, yet vulnerable and difficult existence. How have we been shaped and what does that space feel like? The ways we connect enter into realms rich with imagination and unknown futures. Here, language fails us and facts falter. Our perspectives compose our realities — can we shift them a bit? What if we step into a sphere that allows us to transform our configuration, to bend with the wind, to extend our roots beyond ourselves, beyond our own kin? 

Through various forms of drawing, papermaking, and writing, I create thresholds that navigate us into worlds where our perspectives can be shifted, and our curiosities heightened. Fostering my kinship with the natural world, I transform plant materials and soils into inks and paper — a sensual, slow, and messy process. These techniques are collaborative with place, time, and chance; it becomes a practice of intimacy and letting go. Organic shapes, delicate linework, and muted earth tones create a sense of beauty and lightness; not a lightness that creates a false utopia, but rather a lightness that responds to the weight of living with tenderness and care. By processing my own narratives through this work, I ask viewers to inhabit this place with me — an imaginative space that holds an abundance of complexities: uncertain shadows, tender expressions, fearsome beings, murky waters, and hopeful growth.