Artist Statement

I create site-responsive, abstract and representational mixed-media works and participatory experiences that invite curiosity, care, and connection to self, family, community, and ecology of place. Rooted in the high desert of northern New Mexico, my current practice is grounded in daily, early-morning walks around a small man-made lake, as an act of slowing down, being present and cultivating wonder. This sustained engagement is both ritual and research: an embodied process of devotion, observation, reflection, and relationship-building with the more-than-human world.

My process is as much about listening as making. I work with what’s around me and embrace the unexpected: materials, sites, and natural elements—sun, wind, rain, snow, soil, plants, animals or my daughters—become collaborators in an intuitive process. My practice is an evolving form of fieldwork traversing inner and outer ecologies, from Eagle Rock Lake in Questa, NM, to the banks of the Rio Grande, my garden, home, and studio. Working with drawing, painting, printing, photography, sound and found natural and discarded materials, I gather impressions, images, field recordings, stories and plant and mineral based materials and pigments that lead to plein air experiments with natural media such as cyanotype, watercolor, and ink on paper, fabric, wood, and clay. Rich cyanotype blues, vivid watercolors, natural inks, and earthy black tea merge in layered compositions on paper, tea bags, fabric, wood, and panel. Seasons, time and place shape layered visual compositions and carefully curated small group experiences.

Rural living, family life, archeology of place, seasonality and the passage of time shape my work. Guided by themes of interdependence, impermanence, and belonging, my practice seeks to dissolve the perceived dichotomy between humans and nature. I approach art as action research and relational alchemy creating “narritories” that weave ecological, cultural, and personal stories. Through daily drawing and material experiments I follow the ties that bind us to place, each other, and the more-than-human. These rituals nurture attentiveness, invite contemplation, and fuel an ongoing inquiry into belonging, interdependence, and care. Through visual compositions, sensory experiences and participatory forms, I create portals into deeper awareness and kinship, where noticing becomes a practice of care and resilience. My work is both inquiry and offering: a way to foster reciprocity and reimagine our relationship to the living, animate world.