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My work delves into the intricate relationships between humans and the natural world, exploring themes of climate grief, interconnectedness, and hope. I paint both creature-beings and invented landscapes that operate as portraits of inner states, metaphorically describing energies of attraction and repulsion as systems form and disintegrate. Propelled by the question of how we feel the things we see, I aim to carve out a more holistic way of looking at nature by expanding my conception of possible ways of being.

In order to interrogate our own place in the natural environment, I tell myself a story: In the far future a few surviving nomads navigate a world that is unmoored, dangerous, and awe-inspiring as nature takes back what is hers. They search for communication with the supernatural as they try to make sense of their role in a world without the trappings of manmade structures. My approach to painting mirrors this searching quality: through a process of layering and destroying, I find some kind of order out of chaos.