My primary working methods are gouache drawings on paper and printmaking. My artwork reflects my observations of nature and record, via mark-making, my direct physical experiences of living, hiking, and backpacking.
My working process begins with mark-making that is circumscribed by segments of predetermined time and reflects my efforts to establish order—for example, pairing lines side by side that eventually become large forms or patterns. The patterns are derived from counting people, marking footsteps, or setting time constraints thus creating abstract, intuitive time lines that mark a spatial journey of memory and change.
The topographical nature of my work, both imagined and natural, evolves from my subconscious as I shape and transform the two-dimensional space with the memory of my own physical experiences of how my body moves through space, whether it be crowded streets in Manhattan or expansive mountain terrain that I then visually decode to explore the notion of transience, chance, and difference.
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