Quilt Constellation with Blue Knot, 2023

Acryla Gouache, fabric, glitter, felt, silk cord on paper, 8" x 8", Framed

Courtesy of Pastine Projects, San Francisco; FARM Projects, Wellfleet, MA

My work consists of ornate compositions that use a pattern-based topography to portray ideas about land and our natural world. I often use fabric, glitter, pompoms, glass eyes and more to create images that are simultaneously ordered, in disarray, realistic and abstract. The tapestry-like format is dense, intertwined, sometimes haphazard, and bursting with energy. Seemingly chaotic, the terrain is dynamic, and like our natural world, one hub of activity finds connection and interacts with the next.

It all stems from a personal curiosity about nature, our connection to it, and a fascination with its immense power and beauty. For me, the garden becomes a metaphor for the universe. I strive to immerse the viewer into an image that raises the collective conscious about what is hiding in plain sight in our environment.

I'm interested in micro and macro perspectives to convey the bold and delicate forms that exist in the mysterious realms that surround us. The imagery is meant to transport viewers across abstracted land and sky, illuminating a path to the deep, dark recesses of our universe.

My daily, up-close encounter with nature is the fifty-foot journey through our family garden, from home to studio. I am continually captured by nature's sheer lunatic exuberance-a spectacle of complexity-beautiful, simple, and haphazard.