Artist Statement

I engage grief as a framework for expanded relationalities. Grief, emboldened by quantum mechanics and entanglement, traces the pilgrimage of cells through the physical universe. My work evokes traditional sacred structures and natural forms, which interact with surroundings as phenomenological subjects to be encountered and known. In the studio, practices like ecoprinting and paper recycling become methods of decomposition: remnants of what was, formed into what is now. 

The natural world is habituated to the rhythm of death through the ever-morphous journey of matter — never created, never destroyed, only transformed. When death isn’t the end, decomposition becomes a mechanism which tends to the polytemporal mingling of humans, land, and matter. My practice leans into this generative cycle: outside the studio, I forage for materials from the farm my compost feeds, I collect junk mail from neighbors and friends for paper pulp, and I come alongside grieving families to witness their losses through bereavement portraiture. Within the studio, nothing has a fixed function; objects and tools are recognized for their diverse material properties. Everything is perennially recomposed, repurposed, reoriented to the day’s task.  

My work invites a rewilding of our relationships with mortality and local landscape. It dares to believe that something known, cherished, and lost, can be traced through its rebecoming with imaginative fits of contemplative hope. Here, all things converge, all things are entangled, and all things persist through undoing.