To quote Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, “we try as best we can to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence.” I thus distill momentous experiences (the loss of Amelia Earhart, the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, volcanic eruptions in Iceland, the work and death of Robert Smithson) into and through my artwork--paintings, drawings, and photographs, often with accompanying objects or incorporated into installations.

I am attempting to reconcile vitality and mortality (and their accompanying celebrations and mournings). I am interested in records and relics: of past events, of lived histories, of significant sites. Drawing from maps, artifacts, biographies, the landscape and natural imagery, I chart my connection to those who have gone before and to resonant places in my life. Using this visual language, I become personally connected with the histories of observational and landscape painting and field illustration, re-inventing the mapping and charting process to best relay my empathies and experiences.

-2011