A daily practice; sometimes a moment-by-moment practice that informs all other work: obsessively recording my encounters with the world. The following are projects that have evolved out of those encounters and then there's also just image after image after image (see 'togetherness" below) that may never function beyond a compulsive UTZ-like collecting fetish (see B. Chatwin).

Now that cellphones have rendered paper roadmaps obsolete and Covid has made travel out of reach, I have come to roam to new places by way of my imagination. I collect and transform simple maps into drawn and colored destinations more vibrant and lively than the limited here. Place names obliterated, rivers and roads rerouted, I can create a new anywhere far from our isolated and silent homes. 

 

At a residency in central Florida, I wanted to make work that emerged directly out-of-a-place. As I navigated this strange and beautiful site, I was struck by the porous borders between manicured lawns and untamed natural spaces and the sense that water and wildlife was literally surrounding me. I was overwhelmed by the riot of green growth, pastel homes, and heat. My installation reflects my wandering experience: meandering from drawn, printed, painted, and collected, I invite the viewer to walk with me and celebrate the wonderful and beautiful weirdness I noticed everywhere.
My ensuing works on paper are an extension of my wandering eye: just one more collaged response to this peculiar, complicated, lush, and strange environment.

Very large scale images in the windows @Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC
2015-16

This is a series of artworks that has emerged from a specific site: a university garden in my town. It's all about the garden-as-metaphor for stillness and sound, movement and the passage of life. Media comprise photography, audio recordings, video, papermaking, printmaking, handmade paper and fiber work.
I think it is an installation. And I think it needs to be near this garden.
Updates forthcoming.

a series of sculptural installations in which wall, shelf/table, and collection come together as small set pieces referencing people, places, and worlds

Learning new handmaking processes is an integral part of my practice and many of these artworks emerge from lessons learned on youtube, from a book, or a friend. These sculptures reflect where I locate my artist-self, again and again: one hand making and the other unmaking, one self in the arts and crafts world, and the other irresistibly drawn to subverting that world.

these collages speak to the uneasy and wonderful alliance between humans and animals. We are indebted to animals; we love them, we anthropomorphize them, we kill them, we stuff them. We never seem to realize that we are the same as them, only (maybe) a bit smarter-or at least able to outsmart them in the consumer-consumed conundrum.