Artist's statement

I create abstract cartographic artworks. Large, unwieldy, and indecipherable, they are maps for getting lost. ​

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My art is about navigating uncertainty in an increasingly chaotic world. I am focused on climate change and the future of our planet on human and geologic time scales. But my artworks are grounded in the present. Informed by my experiences of loss and change at midlife, they explore Earth's off-kilter energies and the currents of entropy surging inside of and all around us.

 

My process starts with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, unpredictable forms, which are shaped by rain, wind, insects, and other chance encounters with the environment. I map and annotate them using gestural mark making, drawing, painting, and collage. A new series incorporates deconstructed roadmaps, representing fractured sociopolitical and ecological landscapes.

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My background in journalism and infographics and my research in the areas of cartography, Earth sciences, cosmology, and quantum physics inspire how I think and work. Art influences include automatism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.​