Memories and relationships are intricately woven together with landscapes and places in my mind. I create moments and spaces that are physical manifestations of their emotional counterpoints, the residue of memories: surreal landscapes, bodily forms, scenes of transition and objects imbued with a history. I continually respond with awe to abandoned barns, rock cairns and lighthouses. I collect images of the aftermath of storms, regarding the power of nature, and the power of the detritus to tell a story of loss. I recall visits to small, mountain cemeteries, separated from the landscape by only a rickety wooden or wire fence, and held the whispers of the wind and long meadow grass. I embody both the physical and emotional nature of those spaces, reverent places that hold both solitude and community, nature and humanity, memory and possibility.

In color and form, I instinctively draw from the landscape of my childhood, the linear quality of the mountain grass, the striations of rock, the muted tundra ochres, accented by wildflower pinks and greens. I select materials based on tactile qualities, my working method a mixutre of intuition and planning. I ease between responding to the work emotively and cognitively. I find that the path is not always clear, and that moments of ambiguity and uncertainty bring rewards of complexity and subtlety. In the bittersweet, the liminal, and the faded, I contemplate the potency of nostalgic pasts, and hopeful futures.