I get lost in nature, grounded and re-energized by it. I am especially drawn to trees and their anthropomorphic qualities. I find trees incredibly animated. The tree in your backyard, or the lone tree in the field puts down its roots and stays for a hundred years or more. I think about all that it has seen and experienced. How it has large gouges in it or its base is being washed away by a flowing body of water and still its roots hang on. So persistent, so patient.
My work plays with the push and pull of real and perceived space, and the meditative nature of organic shapes and lines. I am drawn to the dialectic tension between natural and man-made objects. I use items I’ve collected from nature, combined with found man-made objects. This is the nature of the everyday, it is not some serene, hidden, untouched place. Everyday nature is my backyard, the bike trail, the local park. Spaces that have been constructed by humans, constructed for us, but given back to nature at the same time. The line of a stick, the form of a walnut shell half eaten by a squirrel, the color and texture of fungus growing on bark intrigues me and I’m drawn to pick it up. In this ritual of finding objects and finding my composition, of growth and decay and of chance and intuition, I find balance for myself.