Stone Boxes
This work investigates the act of collecting for the purpose of remembering moments experienced in nature. I have always collected stones, filling my pockets with finds from beaches, or trails. Perhaps it is to be able to relive the moments experienced. In these etchings I reminisce about places that leave me feeling profoundly alive. The etchings are a way of considering the keeping of the objects, experienced moments, and the memories, created in a studio retrospectively well after the event has taken place.
A Considered Keeping
Installation of 13 boxed holding stone lithographic prints of abstract images depicting river rock.
To collect, it is a compulsion of keeping the feeling of the experience. While canoeing on the Yukon River collecting stones, and driftwood had to be limited due to space and weight in the boat. This work is a reflection on shorelines examined for the perfect fine, the observation of water running between stones and the desire to keep hold of a part of these spaces.
The Familiar Strangeness of Nature
Triptych of deconstructed copper plate etchings assembled in black painted wooden boxes. The bottom side of the boxes are wider to accomodate a layer of dirt. Wood and metal detail echo lines in the etching. Each box measure 28 x 36”.
Built to suit
Two collaged panels utilizing wire, wood, styrofoam, dried roots, dirt, and print based images.
This work considers the idea of of remembered places yet to be constructed. Trace elements of frames and ridged wire grids are suggestive of building. Negative spaces suggest that which hasn’t come to be. Faded images of organic forms and shapes propped up by precarious scaffolding are suggestive of places that could be created and brought into existence but are not yet like faded blueprints or building projects forgotten.
Below Surface
Sculptures made of wood, styrofoam, wire, dirt, and moss.
Floating earthen mounds reminiscent of hills or mountains viewed from the surface of a body of water are precariously balanced on thin supports. Tension is create amongst the component in order to convey the idea of human attempts to create sustainability.
Detrius
A series of 5 prints mounted on foam that hover above a whimsical background of blue painted brushed strokes and angled snapped chalk lines.
This wall installation suggest the irony of human attempts to control and form the land while creating places that are aesthetically pleasing. The motif of the silt fence, an ugly utilitarian object meant to aid in the erosion and movement of soil on construction sites, gets left behind and ultimately consumed by the earth.
