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

 

My artworks start with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, random forms shaped by rain, snow, and wind, insects, and other encounters with the environment. Next, 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 natural materials, such as crushed shells. 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. In my art, things are simultaneously falling apart and coming together in a state of transformation, representing an entanglement of wreckage and reorganization.

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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. Art influences include automatism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.​