My art traverses the figurative to the abstract; observing ordinary life that surrounds us. My artistic journey began with clay, photography and dance. Each of these disciplines still reside within my art practice. I embrace chance and choice as elemental, moving from conceptual to material, mixing reality and dreams to create a collage of my personal journey within the world that surrounds us. I focus on the shifting layers of experience, balancing between the deeply personal and the political. My art reflects my sense of the impermanence of existence, while seeking to locate myself within the chaos of our contemporary world.

Reclamation Series

The seed of inspiration for my water reclamation etching series came from a project on the Central Coast of California. This ongoing water reclamation project was specifically designed to introduce reclaimed industrial water into a stream, so that steelhead trout could continue to spawn. In these prints, images of natural habitats are blended with abstracted graphic scientific data from water treatment research. Clean reclaimed water that is put back into streams, aquifers and the sea will help mitigate the competition for water and preserve the natural environment needed by both humans and wildlife. My approach, where art and science intertwine so closely, express the urgency to understand global warming. By abstracting these concepts into artworks, I transform ideas into visual experiences that are accessible and elicit further contemplation.

(The scientific data is seen in the chine collé as well as in the blind emboss.)