About the Art:

The prints featured were created in two residencies: one in 2024 in Petaluma, California, and the other, this summer, in 2026 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When I am engaged in a residency, I am often taking walks and thinking about place—how the place has changed due to human history and interaction, and what its future is in response to the rapidly changing global ecology. Both of these places deal with water scarcity and fire. As I meditate on place and its challenges, I also am thinking of broader concerns or feelings—the anxiety of how our world might look in the future. In the more recent lithographic prints, I am thinking about how we understand structure and order from the natural world as we disrupt it. I’m inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s “Cairns”—exploring natural stacks of rocks, cairns, and other natural structures as reflections on movement/travel, ritual, potential, memoriam, and mysticism. Unlike Goldsworthy, I’m exploring the ideas through the analytically removed position of illustration. I am inspired by scientific illustration and traditional prints as approaches to inform and aestheticize natural materials, like sticks and stones, into something pleasing for humans’ visual consumption.