My work currently explores my relationship to nature as it exists in bodily tandem to us, through the acknowledgement of it’s Being and the impact it has on our Becoming. Using specific materials in both drawing and painting I evoke the bodily sense of being somewhere among other bodies. I am interested in at once fossilized and living things and the way we spur transformation and vibration in the spaces we allow something to be both in.
It began with recurring visits to the same spot on the bank of the river and cataloging the way nature had shifted through the seasons; trees were now bare where they had been full, the recess or overflow of the water, what had fallen, or broken, or changed it’s course. I am navigating shifts both internally and through physical space and non-human beings ,which are ultimately not so different. I can have lost something and have gained something else, I can be grieving and celebrating. Illustrated by the marriage of representation and the fictioning that follows, I offer a place in which one can observe my return, consider their own, and practice a witness in a world that asks us to not just see it but to love it.