Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

My artwork blends landscape and myth to create an otherworld for viewers to enter. As part of my process, I travel to remote sites and create artwork to share my experiences of these places with the local community and abroad. I utilize methods of printmaking, drawing, and installation to connect external landscapes to memories and dreams. My emotions shape my memories, and the resulting artwork blends both inner and outer realms, becoming a world of its own. In my installations, I imagine humans as part of nature, belonging to the landscape. My work creates a space to contemplate this relationship.

While At Headlands

I once visited the Marin Headlands as a child, and I have a vivid memory of a tree I met there. Constantly battered by the wind and endlessly reappearing through rolling fog, it was slightly bent with its moss-covered roots anchored to the hillside. Even now, this memory is a tether I return to for moments of peace. At Headlands, I will re-enter this landscape and its microclimate to search for the tree, while in the process enhancing the memory with new experiences there. I will also imagine this memory from the tree’s perspective, contemplating the experience of a tree adapted to survive such a dramatic environment. Utilizing the studio as my canvas, I will build a living landscape of layered drawings from which I will add and subtract elements throughout my residency, creating an otherworldly space of tree dreams and memories for viewers to enter.