April 2022

I am interested in art as a means of exploring themes of memory, place, home, and longing. I examine the precarious thread intimately tied to this sense of longing. I am interested in the fragmentation of space through memory and the fragmentation of memory through time. How does fragmentation play into our perception of ourselves throughout the timeline of our lives, and what does it mean to long for places and things that we can’t quite name?

My recent two-dimensional work in painting and printmaking has begun to shift away from human as subject and gravitate towards more contemplative, introspective, atmospheric landscape narratives. I am intrigued by the ways in which landscapes can provide a stage for memory or fantasy to surface, as well as offering a space for rest. Here, the landscape itself emerges as subject; an active scene in which to enter. In this way, viewers are granted agency to experience the story as participants or storytellers, rather than just observers. 

Growing up in Vermont, scenes of rural winter are as natural to me as the sound of my own name. Winter is cold and often dark, but if you pay close enough attention, in the right light, it sparkles. In this world, melancholy is tempered with beauty, and mundanity walks hand in hand with magic. Oil paint is an inherently temporal and fluid medium, allowing the artist to revise, rework, erase, and add from one moment to the next. Intaglio printmaking allows for various iterations throughout the etching and printing process, providing space for both clarity and abstraction. For these reasons, I utilize paint and printmaking to explore and question my sense of memory, place, and longing, and to transport viewers to a place of their own internal contemplation.