Artist Statement

My work offers contemplative landscape views of compound environments, emphasizing relationships between materials, mediums, and deep time. Muted, though dynamic, these work bear careful observation but do not demand it. The work illuminates the organizations, disintegrations, struggles, and tenderness of human encounters with the more-than-human world.

The works translate natural energies fluidly through alliances of materials, tactilities, processes, and sounds, from handmade paper to handspun and handwoven yardage, to written texts. All works are transdisciplinary arrangements and incubations invoking mythopoetic themes. 

My works compress traditional and modern perspectives by maintaining relationships to heritage practices and contemporary art and living. To the greatest extent possible, I spin the fibers I use, weave my cloth, and make my paper, dye, and ink. I have defined my works as Creative Heritage Practices, that orient my written, poetic linguistic forms and  physical fiber work as devotional exercises. The energy of my chosen work is to pay respect to the ancient poets and creatures whose efforts and materials keep reweaving the world.

Situated on the threshold between the terrestrial and transcendental, I draw, weave, and write to reveal transits between meditation and materiality. The pencil, pen, and brush strokes on paper and the shuttle transfers, modulations, and tensions on the loom are attenuated, embodied movements lending sustained views of natural, physical, and spiritual situations; long-form narratives that invite awareness and witness.