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 powerful systems that occur in both nature and culture. I cut and tear images and embed them in sweeping layers of painterly vivisection, using a fleshy palette that reveals multiple perspectives. The dynamics of power and vulnerability are part of mutually dependent systems of damage and repair, erasure and recovery. Sometimes we cheer for the predator, sometimes the prey.

 

My large-scale photographs of forest ephemera are produced by manipulating the camera in order to destabilize the internal algorithm. The resulting vaporous imagery challenges the usual photographic framework of clear focus, realistic color, and predictable perspective. This raises questions about perception, impermanence, and the role of the photograph as documentation.