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

 

In my paintings I use sourced images that include fractured landscapes and predacious animals. I am interested in confronting emotionally complex imagery to explore power systems that occur in both nature and culture. I embed cut and torn images in layers of paint that through revision reveal multiple perspectives. I also paint on photo canvases, which provide a framework for transformation. I contemplate the dynamics of power and vulnerability through the use of the mutually dependent systems of damage and repair, erasure and recovery. Sometimes we cheer for the predator, sometimes the prey.