My work considers our relationship to wildlife as the natural world becomes estranged through human’s perpetual desire for expansion. The works I make are guided through my personal experiences witnessing the significant loss and pollution of wild lands in the area I live.
Through creating, I am able to both mourn these losses and grapple with my lack of control of their demise. I honor them by marking their deaths through creating something beautiful with craft and care. By utilizing meticulous, repetitive processes such as hand-engraving, printmaking, drawing, and weaving, I am able to grieve through my work, while also yielding a connection from that grief to others who share my passion for the wild.
Much of the work I create is manifested through generative mark-making. I cut thousands of slivers of copper and wood to hold high detail in my prints, spend hours and hours gently rubbing graphite into paper fibers for a delicate drawing, or endlessly interlocking lost and found plastics to create weavings. All my physical labors in creation are my attempts to translate the promising beauty I see in the natural world into something that can instill that hope into my viewer’s heart.
Collectively, my work considers the wild around us, and is alert to our everyday actions that affect it. My work evokes a renewal of attentiveness toward our direct and indirect impacts on the wild and aims to rejuvenate a passion for conserving wild spaces.