ARTIST STATEMENT
In life and in art, I’m interested in the purposeful restructuring of what has been broken down. My work explores how we navigate cycles of rupture and repair as they relate to the surrounding landscape, using textures from nature as a nourishing foundation.
I currently work in mixed media, in spurts of time. This is an attempt to acknowledge and elevate the irregular studio rhythms of an artist who is also a teacher and a mom to young children—a necessary exercise that has resulted in something special. I lay down textured underpaintings in acrylic, then play for weeks (or months) on end with scraps of drawings I’ve made while hanging out with my kids or prepping art lessons. These pieces come together later as collages when I have the opportunity for more focused creative decisions.
Beyond my own divided studio attention, I’m confronted with greater examples of ruptured entities on a daily basis: our planet, relationships, rights, and institutions seem to be fracturing at an ever-increasing rate. What renewed whole can be created from these broken parts? My studio objectives parallel this question, as I gather together the scrappy fragments of life and reconstruct them into something new and more compelling than their previous form.
