Artist’s Statement

January 2026

My work uses sound and smell in addition to visual art in order to link the experience of the individual to the collective systems and rhythms of the larger world. Birth, growth, expansion and decay are transformative and constant events of animal, mineral, non-human and human ecologies, which carry on regardless of human political and social constructions. I look for the places where the borders between these systems collapse as a way to connect.

This work is an offering, a suggestion, of how these systems are interrelated, and how we as individuals and as humans are simply one part of the whole. There is a world that exists prior to us. The sounds in the story work to create a sense of blending and absorption. Our bodily experiences of hearing, touching and smelling are encountered individually. These senses in particular are also ways of encountering the world in an unbounded, collective manner that spreads out beyond the social/cultural frame. There is an inseparability of maker, picture and what is pictured, hinting at a universal language that goes beyond the mirror, the map or the eye. The viewer of this image is as involved as the maker.