I create cartographic abstract artworks. Large, turbulent, and densely layered, they are maps for getting lost. ​​

 

Guided by chance and intuition, my artworks start with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, random forms shaped by landscape topographies and natural elements, such as rain, snow, wind, and insects. I use gestural mark making to channel the energy of the ink geographies, and then chart them with pens, pencils, markers, charcoals, acrylic paint, pastels, watercolors, roadmap fragments, and materials from my surroundings. I often repeat the process, pouring ink, gesso, or paint onto worked-over sections to add layers.

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The focus of my art practice is our environmental crisis and my anxieties about the future. Grounded by experiences of loss and change as a woman at midlife, my art reflects on a planet and a life in transition, a liminal space of fragmentation and flow.

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My journalism background and research in the areas of Earth sciences and physics shape how I think and work. I'm interested in the questions scientists in these fields are asking about how our world works and what comes next on human, geologic, and cosmic time scales. For a new body of work about climate change, I have partnered with a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist who studies ocean currents and warming trends. Art influences include automatism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.