I make paintings and non-traditional photographs that explore power relationships and challenge perception. I am drawn to processes that make visible evidence of chance, uncertainty, and discovery.

 

With the use of found images that range from natural and human-generated disasters to predatory animals feeding on prey, my paintings explore power systems that occur in both nature and culture. Using visceral imagery and a fleshy palette, I cut and tear images and embed them in sweeping layers of paint that through revision reveal multiple perspectives. They show that the dynamics of power and vulnerability are part of a mutually dependent system of damage and repair, erasure and recovery. Sometimes we cheer for the predator, sometimes the prey.