My work engages with notions of nature inspired art, and questions the primordial human obsession with natural forms. Photography serves as my expression of collection to taxonomize my ideas and experiences. I work with sculpture and printmaking because it allows me to convey my thoughts through tangible objects. By using these media, I hope to awaken a profound way of seeing by invading my audience’s understanding of reality and definition of place, while encouraging them to dissolve into the ecosystem of my creation. I am inspired by human perception and identification with nature, and the authenticity of the handmade and organic. Nature’s architecture is uniquely patented, and the directions to build a wildflower, a mountain peak, or a supple stream are in a language we will never decipher.
Nature’s power of mystery forces me physically and conceptually outside. Natural sites have become charged spaces, and the consequent tension influences my artistic exploration and expression. I use raw beauty to ephemerally stabilize my viewer in order to juxtapose and reinforce the current instability of our environmental condition. I hope to arouse audience introspection on issues of global warming, drought, invasive species, and resource extraction through my documentation of abstracted moments where evolution, time, and mutation have revealed their own artwork. My imagery and sculptures endeavor to intimately connect human bodies and minds to complex natural bodies and minds. I liberate the viewer in order to create a space for earnest appreciation and curiosity about the natural world around us. My objective is to ignite a sense of discovery that requires a metamorphosis of ideologies. My work is based on the moment everything inside halts, and we begin to see and exist—outside.