Working with paper and ceramics, I create relief and free-standing sculptures that embody my ecstatic response to an abundantly animate world. Vibrant paper cutouts unfurl in meandering webs that connect macrocosmic and microcosmic imagery, coalescing into animal and plant bodies. Clay figures, altars, and vessels are inscribed and painted with symbols and diagrams that encode biological processes. Merging ancient ritual objects with current scientific research, the sculptures are tactile transmissions of interspecies narratives such as pollination, food webs, and life cycles.

 

Rejecting the paradigm of environment as inert, expendable, and severed from humanity, my work underscores the mythic and mystical dimensions of ecological stories. My formal choices are influenced by the numinous compositions of modern spiritualist painters, the kaleidoscopic visions of medieval illuminators, and the interspecies reverence of neolithic and bronze age artifacts. I am particularly drawn to study the imagery of cultures and movements that valued ecological interdependence, gender liberation, and class egalitarianism, and to explore ways of metabolizing this imagery in my own practice.