My current work combines material and imagery of the built or constructed environment with that of the natural or ecological in a way that reveals the nature and tension of those relationships. Urban sites of development are often points at which beliefs about public and private property and common visual landscape collide, as the process of private construction often spills over into public space (be it material, visual, or audible). I am interested in how the organization of architecture and the built world is often in disparity with the pre-existing systems and processes of the natural world, which imply their own logic. I am curious about the moment when one overtakes the other. As Toni Morrison writes, “All water” – in actuality, every natural material – “has a perfect memory, and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” My work catches materials in instances of rebellion against artifice, framing their attempts at return to a previous form or function. My working process tends to emerge out of the materials that I select for each piece, and broaden to include conceptual concerns which these materials suggest, as my work seeks a visual poetry elicited by a dialogue between natural, construct-ual, and graphic material.
