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

 

My artworks generally start with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, random forms shaped by rain, snow, wind, insects, and other encounters with the environment. I use gestural mark making to channel the energy of the ink geographies and then map them with pens, pencils, markers, charcoals, acrylic paint, pastels, watercolors, roadmap fragments, and materials collected from my natural surroundings. I may repeat the process several times, pouring ink or paint onto worked-over sections to open it back up and add new layers.

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The main focus of my practice is the environmental crisis and my anxieties about the future. Grounded by my experiences of loss and change as a woman at midlife, my artworks speak to a planet and a body in transition. They are about engaging with uncertainty in an increasingly chaotic world. An entanglement of wreckage and reorganization, my art reflects states of transformation in constant flux.

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My background in journalism and my research in the areas of cartography, Earth sciences, and quantum physics inspire how I think and work. For a new body of work about climate change, I have partnered with a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist who studies ocean warming trends. Art influences include automatism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.​