My work is about proximity — how close or far we are from each other, from home, from meaning, from the sacred. I explore this through collage, painting, and printmaking, each medium offering a different way to think about connection and distance.
Years of living abroad have shaped my practice. I lived in five countries over fifteen years, working as a teacher, and that experience made me attentive to how people locate meaning across cultures — how we navigate place and identity, form beliefs, and make sense of the world, particularly as we relocate, migrate, or change over time. My work reflects a sustained curiosity about displacement and belonging, the pursuit of mystery, and the unseen forces that shape human experience.
In collage, I use scraps of paper and fabric collected during my travels, arranging them into compositions that resemble maps, landscapes, or neither. These fragments serve as material memory — traces of place brought together in new configurations. The work reflects both wonder at the variety and complexity of the world, and a sense of distance from it.
In painting, I work abstractly with biomorphic shapes in deliberate spatial relationship to one another. I pay close attention to the spacing between forms as a way to explore interpersonal connection — everyone's sense of "close" is different, and the compositions I build reflect that unique variety. Abstract work has the power to express nuance and sensation in ways that remain open to each viewer's interpretation.
Through printmaking, particularly relief, I offer a contemporary take on religious imagery. My Christian upbringing made me curious about faith traditions in other parts of the world. By combining disparate religious symbols, deities, and animals, I share a pluralist, open-minded perspective on the shared human pursuit of mystery across time and culture. This pursuit, I believe, is what makes us most human.
I work intuitively, following compositional instinct and visual interest. The themes that recur — proximity, displacement, mystery, connection — emerge through the process of making rather than being predetermined. I trust that the work reveals what I'm thinking about before I can articulate it in words.
