Artist Statement

I’ve walked the same wild environments for a decade; a system with countless individual life forces. Big sky, hulking mountains, jutting rock, expansive water, fungal flushes, forest arches, crawling stonecrop. Whether my face is right in it or I’m miles away, my eyes seek out the patterns, striations, and rhythms there.

Using memory and source photos, I center on one component: the tree canopy through seasons; individual plants; color and viscosity shifts in water, land, and sky in the winter; material accumulation over the centuries. Part observation, part imagination, the composition is architected around that focus. The initial form in each image establishes the rules that dictate how the composition takes shape.

Progressions, perspective, countless small marks, repetition, color, and pattern express the energy in each individual element, building a vibrating ecosystem within the scene. I imagine what unseen energy pulses inside each discrete element. How do they function in reaction to external stimuli? What would the flow, growth pattern, reflection, and climate look like when free from their biological and physical paradigms?