Watersheds

Artist Statement

My work examines our tenuous connection to the environment and the exponential growth of consumerism. I incorporate post-consumer matter in my installations, paintings, and sculptures. The material serves simultaneously as a muse and the actual physical matter I modify, manipulate, and amend into some form of finalized presence. The resulting embodied artwork is open to evolving transformations that echo the themes of stewardship, fluidity, excess, and integration. I am fascinated and drawn to post-consumer matter and see it as a vehicle for change. As co-author with the consumer waste stream, I seek to remake, remark, and re-examine the relationship of material goods with the natural world by cutting, altering, and reconfiguring synthetic garments, my preferred medium, into new configurations. Inspired by Dada, abstract expressionism, and feminist art, my sculptures and installations generate dialogue around sustainable practices and human connectivity. I am interested in exploring the intersections of the material and spiritual, the altered and recombined, and the concepts of transcendence and restitution, all seen through the feminist lens.