Hot House Hybrids II

Rooted, Radiant Ravishing
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair
Born of the beds
Earth born mother of bees and birds
Sister of lavender
Friend of slugs and spiders
She dances with the lilies in the light of the full moon
Her gyrations, reverberations groove
In cicada time to the beat of darkness
And in the morning
Her eyelids sparkle with the dew drops of a heavy heavenly sleep
She laughs
And her laughter mingles with birdsong and wind chime
Unseen, the wind gently ruffles the leaves
And she spins

My Version of America's Majestic Canyons

In my ongoing project, My Version of America’s Majestic Canyons, I am altering the pages of a national geographic magazine by cutting, painting, and collaging to emphasize and conceal different parts of the landscape. With the focus of this project being process based, I am intuitively using color and shape to abstract and change the context of the images. This approach has allowed me to create my own meaning out of preexisting landscapes. Through the colors I am mixing with paint, I am directly referencing the color palette seen in my performance based videos.

Keeping Pace (Series)

Keeping Pace is a series of works that build collaged imagery resembling nervous and respiratory systems. They are created through a cyanotype photographic printing process where tree leaves and other foliage are exposed to the sun on chemically coated paper to create cyan-blue prints. The process of cyanotype printing with multiple exposures is slow, repetitive, and laborious. The process is itself healing. It is a tool to get the body moving while also giving time to reflect on the interconnectivity of the body and the land it inhabits.

Scavenger Hunt

This series of collages involves actively photographing and cataloging my daily experiences, a scavenger hunt of sorts that fuels my creativity. My photographs form my own library of color, textures, and shapes that can be reconstructed and reworked to create a new story that is oddly familiar yet disorienting. In addition to my own images, I investigate and manipulate found imagery, both digitally and physically. 

Perception

A continuing series of artworks that encapsulate personal observations and social commentary. At first glance, the primary image draws the viewer in with references to vintage anatomical illustrations. Upon closer inspection, the intricate process unveils layers of torn and combined papers, where small narratives and abstract juxtapositions of flowers, animals, foliage, and colors come into focus.

Frontline Histories

In this time of pandemic, we have seen what it means for people to rise in to roles of leadership.  

…Not the kind of leadership that is about supervision, or power, or even some idea of success. But rather, a form of leadership that is about taking on the responsibility to care for another person. The kind of leadership that centers the humanity that we all share, and that reveals the better angels of our nature.  
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