Artist Statement

I seek out materials, spaces, and physical objects that are embedded by the forces of time and location. As index of time and place, they are left with the residue of these forces. The object becomes the place. I am particularly interested in our use and interpretation of land. My work is an investigation of our influence on the land and the land’s influence on us. The work is seasoned by natural forces of growth, decay, stratification, entropy, light, and shadow. I work with the environment by placing a fabricated form in nature, presenting a new perception of what has always been. Each form is site-specific, developing an honest relationship to location. I am inspired by the atmospherical force of sun, weather, and wind blowing over open spaces. The work collects some of these forces like a photographer might collect images of place, with light and film, but more abstractly. I find research in walking, on hikes, within layers of geologic time, in the open spaces and unique topographies of land, and in a simple, often quiet, awareness to this space. I want to condition the act of looking with the act of walking at the human pace, investigating human perception. Art happens in the awareness to time and space rushing around us.