LET THE LIGHT IN
2022-present series As I continue to practice interbeing and mindfulness, I've been thinking about the spaces and places where I have lived, worked, and travelled. These places and spaces have shaped who I am and how I see the world. In an effort to center joy and healing, I've started making drawings that represent the world as I wish to see it, through a lens of care and color and love. I'm curious to see how this series will combine the strange, and surreal with the simple and elemental. The balance of it all represents my desire to create work that is true to myself and connects with others. Drawing continues to be the way I tell the outside world about my inside world. It is the most pure way I know of to connect. |
INVITATIONS
2020-2023 series When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States I was taking a break from making. This became an extended break as I floundered, trying to find meaning and purpose amid uncertainty and fear. In the back of my mind I continued to return to changing up the rhythms of making to speak to place, time and expanded ideas of audience. From this thinking a new body of work has developed, and continues to evolve. From June 2020 and beyond, I am asking friends, loved ones, and colleagues to collaborate with me by hosting a drawing in an outdoor area where they live for a one month period. The drawing will feature an animal or insect of their choosing that represents a species that they know is indigenous to their home area, but that they are not actively seeing in their personal spaces. Whether this is a backyard, shared apartment courtyard, or window fire escape, I'm hoping that my project partners will reflect on who their animal and insect neighbors are, and who is missing. Once an animal/insect is chosen for a drawing I am representing it with mixed media materials on handmade paper of my creation and sealing it with a wax or other weather resistant coating to give it some protection from the natural elements. Project partners are asked to share with me, photograph and video documentation of their drawing at the beginning of its outdoor display, and at the end of the month, prior to the piece being removed. This documentation will likely become a video installation and/or publication that brings together the animals and insects woven into a larger conversation as a unit. As this body of work develops I will be researching themes and theories of place, material, climate change, plants, collaboration, healing, sustainable landscaping and gardening, public vs. private spaces, and more. If you have a reading that you think would contribute to the research portion of my practice please share it with me via my contact page. To follow along with the making of the images and their installation in outdoor spaces follow my instagram page. |