Artist Statement

My work investigates how experience becomes pictorial space. Working between the body, landscape, and abstraction, I am interested less in describing what is seen than in allowing sensation, perception, memory, and spiritual attention to shape the structure of a work.

In some works, the figure provides the initial structure; in others, landscape, color, or a physical encounter becomes the point of departure. Through gesture, overlap, repetition, erasure, and shifts between positive and negative space, forms gather, fragment, and dissolve. A body may become landscape; a landscape may lose its descriptive boundaries and become a field of pressure, movement, and color.

I am interested in the point at which figure and ground, body and environment, presence and absence stop behaving as stable oppositions. The figure may be held by a structure without being fully explained by it, while surrounding space can become as active as the figure itself. Rather than illustrating a predetermined narrative, I allow meaning to emerge through the process of making—through what is held, interrupted, obscured, or allowed to remain open.