ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice is interdisciplinary, combining drawing, printmaking, papermaking, artist’s books, and ecological works to explore the complicated history and future of the relationship between humans, non-humans and the environment. Areas of concentration include the effects of consumptive civilizations on wildlife, the origins of modern humans’ interaction with and taming of the wilderness, and life from a non-human perspective. Aesthetically, my work is inspired by illuminated manuscripts, children’s books, and Medieval and 19th century prints. Conceptually the work is derived from natural systems, especially the ocean, and more recently, contemporary ecological and new media works. I am attracted to the intimacy that my small-scale drawings, prints, and books afford the viewer, because they aid the transfer of a potentially undesirable environmental message.