artist statement

A sailboat anchored in the San Francisco Bay and a cabin off the grid in the woods are my dual homes. Before moving into the heart of city to study at the San Francisco Art Institute as a printmaker, I spent ten years living in this remote location in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Working in printmaking, photography, mix media, artist books, sculpture, murals and instillation, I capture a migration from mountain, to city, to sea; documenting observation of growth in precarious areas. Through a meditative practice of close observation and connection to place, I reflect how creatures and materials exist differently depending on their environment. Exploring rhythms and dynamics within our human condition and attention to sonder, extend from this careful listening. An avid experimentalist, I forage materials from path, utilizing substances such as nautical charts and sails, lichen, seaweed, rock, paint chips, bricks, mushrooms and tree bark during the paper making, paint and dye making, sculptural and printing making processes. Detailed and delicate, a ghostly dreamlike atmosphere is rooted in silent reverence and solace in moments of stillness.