‘Cadence’ 2024-2026

I walk a path around a pond nearly every week, capturing moments of presence and observing how we shape place and how place, in turn, shapes us. The ongoing cadence reveals a dialogue between the internal and external, the organic and inorganic, the imposed and the inherent. Through stillness and motion, I am exploring a unique architecture of place and form; a future-scaped place at the intersection of the natural and constructed, a map of the places between systems, change, and evolution, and an empathy by design.

This repetition of walking functions as fieldwork. Each visit is both a return and a departure. The pond remains, but light, weather, growth, and my own attention shift the encounter every time. I carry this rhythm into my studio practice, where photographs, drawings, and collected materials are transformed into dimensional constructions that hold multiple moments simultaneously.

My process begins with a flat panel of plywood, a kind of topographic ground, which I then cut, pierce, layer, apply color or stain and build outward into space. Malleable materials are central to this transformation: painted and altered wood, metallic and transparent fabric that folds and crinkles like terrain, industrial mesh gathered and stitched into organic shapes, wire bent and coiled by hand, acrylic shaped to catch and refract light. Each material is manipulated until it holds tension between its raw, industrial origin and the organic gesture I impose on it. The result is a sculptural language where surfaces behave unpredictably; reflective, textured, folded, torn and echoing the unpredictability of a living landscape shaped by both natural processes and human intervention.

Dimensionality is not incidental; it is the point. Each piece projects from the wall, creating depth, layered shadow, and shifting visual information depending on the viewer’s position and the light in the room. The experience mirrors how the pond path itself resists a single fixed image over the passage of time; it looks and feels different depending on when and how you move through it. I want the sculptures to require that same kind of active looking: circling, approaching, stepping back.

Color and form emerge directly from specific walks and passing through seasons. Warm reds and golds from late-day light on water, greens press against constructed edges, blues and violet; deep water or sun setting at dusk. This work becomes material distillation of what stillness and motion leave behind.

Underlying this practice is a belief in empathy by design: that shaping an environment and being shaped by it in return is an ongoing negotiation and conversation of growth, adaptation, and repair. The pond path is a managed, developed space that sustains ecosystems and solitude. My sculptures ask the viewer to inhabit that same tension visually and physically to notice where the imposed and the inherent meet in both material and form, and to consider what future-scapes might emerge when we build and experience with attentiveness.

This body of work is a map of the places between systems, change, and evolution.

‘Intersections and Places Between’ 2023-2026

'Intersections and Places Between' is a collection of artworks loosely inspired by the Polly Pocket children's toy from the 1990s. The toy portrayed Polly's numerous locations with detailed terrain inside a pocket-sized architectural model, which serves as a catalyst for exploration, entertainment, and expanding the imagination.

My architectural collage assemblages depict a future-scaped place at the intersection of our natural world and human-made buildings found in cities.

The photo image in each place is a snapshot of my photos that I have collaged. I choose images that I have collected by repeatedly visiting locations to emphasize patterns and significant motifs to serve as a map or point of reference for each location. Bridges connect, trees symbolize interconnectedness, and water binds human elements to one another and the earth. The visual motifs create an underlying system of significant naturally occurring and human-made architectural elements connecting each place individually and/or as a whole.

As you view and experience each place, picture yourself in each location. For example, imagine receiving a glimpse of sunshine through two trees that reflect in your surroundings. As you stand on a bridge over water, a corresponding building overhang mimics the organic shape of tree leaves acting as a canopy, casting a shadow with a reflected orange flash from a neon, sunset-inspired paint job on the underside of the structure. Imagine sliding down an organic, shimmering, free-flowing bridge that has been crafted along the edge of a river bank, with glittering hues reflecting the light over the rippling water below. Play! It might make for some fun!

Paired with each place are art drops. Art Drops are part of a project I began in 2010. I 'drop' small parts of larger artworks throughout the community and city to be found by anyone, allowing the art drop to mirror and echo the site-specific collection of photo images.

My intention for the art drop is to act as a catalyst to connect to the larger artwork and series, as well as others who have found the pieces. As part of 'Intersections and Places Between,' each drop acts as a viewfinder of images I collected to create a 'place'. Each conceptual layer expands the whole of the place for a greater connection through the artwork. Collecting imagery through the process of exploration and photography, the assemblage model, placing art drops throughout the surrounding physical location, and finally, the viewer and those that find the art drops connect to the created place and one another, generating a multifaceted system bridging to the underlying visual motifs.

I created this work because, as always, but maybe a bit more now, we are in a significant time of evolution, change, and rebirth between the systems that make our places. I am curious how the future will look and feel. Systems, change, and environments are what I am curious about, have studied, and have experienced, and this artwork is an iteration of my curiosity.

‘Sanctuary’ Interactive Installation 2024

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‘Perception’ 2020-2023

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