I make drawings, collages and paintings that integrate colors and textures of the natural world with marks and symbols of domestic labor. By combining elements that signal both universal and personal connections, my work seeks a spiritual integration of art and life.

My work is process based; I forage plants and collect other raw materials to use in dying and staining mulberry paper with botanical colors; Exposure to natural elements imbues the processed papers with the marks of weather, time, and a sense of place; Using household tools such as stovetop burners, washing machines, and irons, I add marks of domesticity to the texture of the work; Cutting, tearing and piecing together fragments of paper and canvas, I mend the surfaces back together, creating a kind of patchwork within a framework of modular geometric and organic shapes that elicit sacred geometry.

Together, these processes result in works with a strong material presence. Their surfaces are reminiscent of cracks in the dry desert earth, the spots and wrinkles that appear on our skin through the aging process, and the variegated textures and colors of desert plants and rocks that compose a subtle and rich landscape in the high Desert Mesa where I live. Obvious evidence of the work’s making reveals authenticity, accident, the unknown, unpredictability, imperfection, decay and beauty.