Colorful plastic debris, shiny metal scraps, rusty car parts and burnt tree limbs. These objects embody the complicated relationship between humans and nature. This relationship can be sustaining, disdainful, nurturing, exploitive, responsive, meditative and more. My art practice uses found materials to create artwork depicting visual aspects of climate change.
Found objects are my palette. Remnants from dumpster dives and beach clean-ups provide fertile ground for artistic inspiration as well as raw materials for making art. Through methods of collecting and cataloguing, I create artworks evoking processes of over-production, mass consumption, waste, and recycling. These compositions express critical narratives that question the sustainability of our globalized society. Both a sculptor and an architect by training, my artworks comment on human transgressions of natural and constructed environments.
An environmentally engaged artist, my practice involves attending artist residencies at art farms around the country. I collaborate with conservation groups and community preservationists to create art evoking local sustainability issues. This place-based and research-oriented process explores native ecological narratives in different climatic regions. My multi-disciplinary artworks probe the intersections between sculpture, architecture, installation, and land art to comment on humanity’s intricate relationship with nature.