Statement
Nature plays a predominant role in my work, work that is fundamentally informed by and is a direct response to an innate affinity humans have toward the natural world. Biophilia, a term coined by Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, describes “...the connections that humans beings subconsiously seek with the rest of life." The artwork I create is a direct response to this concept through references to the landscape, fauna, and flora of the natural world.
My recent work is inspired by aerial images of the earth, especially the unusual shapes bodies of water take from such a high vantage point. I take these aerial images (such as watershed systems, lakes, rivers) and further abstract these already abstracted shapes to create large sewn and stuffed sculptural pieces; works that are freed from their geographical and cartographic reference.
Through installation and sculpture, I explore the unexpected forms and compositions the world around us is capable of revealing. My work occasionally possesses an obsessive quality in its construction —painstaking assemblages of multiple, individual parts that are combined to create a larger, complete image: an image made of images.