My interdisciplinary practice is informed by all that led me to this moment, beginning with my background in a distinctly rigid religious home focused on intellectual and theological systems of thinking and being in the world. The iconographic nature of this existence readied me with a deeply symbolic way of thinking, an active and nurtured passion for inquiry, and a broad responsibility toward seeing and valuing others. My visual explorations are a quest for informed consciousness, percipience, and agency, where text and visual converge, where science and cheesecloth hold hands, where the abstraction of the natural environment intersects with the maternal, where a woman can be an artist, mother, and human in one day. I analyzes how internalized beliefs about self, identity, and empowerment are carried from parent to child and driven by hegemonic systems. These are generative points for observation, reference, and theory. I intend for detritus to become new, for light to reveal singularity, and for place to elevate wholeness.

My desire for engagement with multiple media originates in my childhood play in upstate New York where I had access to the natural in the form of streams, forests, fields, and in two giant willow trees in my backyard. Nature was my first studio. I would aggregate, design, and construct – small grass weavings, drawings of dandelions in their seed state, forts in our backyard cherry tree, found log bridges across creeks, and compositions of moss, leaves, and sticks. This ebullient freedom of exploration is the essence of my practice today. My work integrates the plausibility of strife and discord as moments of evolution and growth. I begin in my daily life, as artist-mother-human, culling from the surrounding environment in terms of materials, happenings, encounters, habits, behaviors, and reflection. I marry these with context specific research and experimentation, acquiring knowledge where there is lack.