Artist Statement
I blend impressions of living between two landscapes—Northern California and an Island in Washington State. I have hiked and worked the land in both, gathering from its elemental sources. Using graphite, pastel and charcoal, I draw in reverence to wild open space and its intricate populations—to invoke a timeless quality, a territory without particular coordinates, free from naming.
Living near the Puget Sound, I walk its shores, observe the water, its shifting atmospheres, light and weather, a reminder of fluidity, movement and change. Pastel and graphite create a nuanced surface. By applying line, layering and erasing, I develop and saturate the paper, blurring gradations of light and dark.
An unending amount of plastic arrives with the tide. Human produced, consumed and discarded debris which the sea has rightfully spat back. I began collecting and making plastic constructions as a way to pay attention to and reconsider each fragment's form and shape. The assemblages began to reveal a related pattern of animation, a certain brokenness. In piecing together the plastic, I attempt to bear witness to massive human impacts, to re-animate the discarded.
Living near the Puget Sound, I walk its shores, observe the water, its shifting atmospheres, light and weather, a reminder of fluidity, movement and change. Pastel and graphite create a nuanced surface. By applying line, layering and erasing, I develop and saturate the paper, blurring gradations of light and dark.
An unending amount of plastic arrives with the tide. Human produced, consumed and discarded debris which the sea has rightfully spat back. I began collecting and making plastic constructions as a way to pay attention to and reconsider each fragment's form and shape. The assemblages began to reveal a related pattern of animation, a certain brokenness. In piecing together the plastic, I attempt to bear witness to massive human impacts, to re-animate the discarded.