Artist's statement
I create abstract cartographic artworks. Large, unwieldy, and indecipherable, they are maps for getting lost.
Inspired by the chaos of our world, my artworks reflect turbulent interior geographies. They're about navigating the mayhem of the moment—an entanglement of personal, political, and environmental unknowns.
My process starts with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, random forms shaped by rain, wind, insects, and other chance encounters. Then I add details using gestural mark making, asemic writing, drawing, painting, and collage. A new series of artworks incorporates destroyed roadmaps, representing fractured sociopolitical landscapes and the destruction—and destructiveness—of roads and maps themselves.
My background in journalism and infographics and research in the fields of cartography, geoscience, cosmology, and quantum physics inform my art practice. It is also a response to the obliteration of rainforests and other natural habitats by overdevelopment, pollution, and climate change. Art influences include automatism, surrealism, gestural painting, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.