My work explores the cycles of damage and repair that define the natural world. Inspired by the forest landscape of Virginia, I make paintings about the dynamics of nature in order to explore conflict and impermanence through fractured landscapes. My paintings depict animal packs and birds, processes of predators feeding, chasing and being chased, as well as plants and roots. I cut, tear, and tape photographs and found images, surrounding and embedding them with layers of paint, juxtaposing cut edges with fluid marks. The found images are sourced from widely accessible digital media of real scenes that are available at our fingertips. These include exotic animals, dead carcasses, natural and man-made disasters and their aftermath, and crime scenes — unsettling subjects that may be beautiful and painful, essential or horrific. Complex relationships including the duality of growth and decay, predator and prey, and injury and repair, exist among the simplest to the most sophisticated life forms, all of which form an elaborate evolving system. Both at odds and in harmony. Sometimes we cheer for the predator, sometimes the prey.